Bonus Round!

[jack_babalon]

A quick pop culture rorschach test:

1-When you look at the above comic book cover you see...?
a)The timeless tale of man verus radioactive mutant unicorn of course!
b)The Silver Age of Comics at its finest.
c)A snapshot of the male subconscious wrestling with puberty.
d)...daddy!
e)________ (fill in the blank)

2- If you had to guess how did the Mighty Samson find himself having to battle a mutant unicorn in the first place?

3- How did the Mighty Samson lose his eye?

4- Would this make a killer tattoo or what?

5- What song comes to mind as a possible soundtrack to this story?

6- You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down... (it doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical)... you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

Okay that's it.

Thanks for your cooperation and we'll be back with your results sometime next week.

Comments

[aeforge.livejournal.com]

1. e) The next supplement I'm writing for Hellas: Worlds of Sun & Stone. Awesome!

2. The Philistines, in lieu of using a hot poker to gouge out Samson's eyes, instead foolishly chose to use a mutant unicorn. This is obviously apocryphal.

3. See above. They should have used a poker. And cut off his hair first.

4. Yes but only if the radioactive mutant unicorn actually glows in the dark.

5. Prong, "Snap Your Fingers..."

6. I'll tell you about my mother.

[ammutbite.livejournal.com]

1. a
2. conflict over a virgin/soon to be ex virgin
3. fun and games reached the inevitable stopping point
4. sure...if you have blue skin
5. cubanate -oxyacetelyne
6. turtle jerky!

[catwalk.livejournal.com]

1. c
2. must have been a cut storyline from "heavy metal" regarding that glowing green orb
3. in one of his endless battles crossing the post-apocalyptic/neo-pioneer/wasteland/jungle of another life-sustaining planet
4. i'm gonna go with "or what"
5. something by Whitesnake... seriously
6. because the tortoise will eventually realize it is not actually on its back, but that the earth is on the tortoise's back... elephants will be along shortly

[entropic-om.livejournal.com]

1- e) He-Man's (Adam's) great-great-grandpa (from the Old Country). You know how you never bend down in front of a goat. Well...

2- That's what happens when you're listed in the Yellow Pages.

3- There was this mermaid and a cracked glass and a wooden leg. It's a long story.

4- Uhm, not so much. Mighty Samson's a bit pansy-looking. Maybe if he were beefed up a bit...or is that beefed down.

5- "The Carney" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Not sure why.

6- Because secretly I know that the tortoise is a god in disguise and I have no desire to go to Ephebe today. That and baked tortoise tastes quite nice.

[daucus-carota.livejournal.com]

1. c... always pick c

2. Judges 16:1 Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Judges 16:2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, a lethal, radioactive, mutant, fabled unicorn shall kill him.
~Book of Judges, Holy Bible, King James Version

3. impaled by a unicorn... duh.

4. what.

5.

6. Commander's Palace Turtle Soup au Sherry
10 ounces (2-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 pound turtle meat, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 cup minced celery (4 stalks)
2 medium onions, minced (2 medium)
1-1/2 teaspoons garlic, minced
3 bay leaves
1 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1-1/2 cups tomato purée
1 quart beef stock
NOTE: If turtle bones are available, add them to the beef bones when making the stock for this dish
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste, as needed
1/2 cup lemon juice
5 hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped
1 tablespoon minced parsley
6 teaspoons dry sherry
Melt 8 ounces (2 sticks) butter in a heavy saucepan. Add the flour and cook, stirring frequently, over medium heat until the roux is light brown. Set aside.
In a 5-quart saucepan, melt the remaining butter and add turtle meat. Cook over high heat until the meat is brown. Add celery, onions, garlic and seasonings, and cook until the vegetables are transparent.
Add tomato purée, lower heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the stock and simmer for 30 minutes. Add the roux and cook over low heat, stirring, until the soup is smooth and thickened. Correct seasoning with salt and pepper to taste. Add lemon juice, eggs and parsley.
Remove from heat and serve. At the table, add 1 teaspoon sherry to each soup plate.

xxx

[novadrome.livejournal.com]

1-When you look at the above comic book cover you see...?

What the description doesn't explain is the unicorn is only just NOW a lethal radioactive mutant. I believe it was a sweet and easily approachable woodland creature of myth. Then that bastard (and mightily radioactive!) Samson came along, throttled the gentle beast by its magical horn, forever tranforming it's nature. From that day forward, the unicorn became an elusive creature, fearful of the corruption it now carried. It was not long before the entire race of unicorns was infected, and died horribly of radiation poisoning. Fucking Samson, man.

2- If you had to guess how did the Mighty Samson find himself having to battle a mutant unicorn in the first place?

See 1. The unicorn wasn't "battling" Samson. It was trying to get away.

3- How did the Mighty Samson lose his eye?

Oh, he didn't lose it. It's in there. Samson thinks the crimson eyepatch makes him look more swarthy and he knows how the other lads lurve them some swarth. He lures his would-be lovers to his embrace and then they all die. Horribly. That Fucking Samson!

4- Would this make a killer tattoo or what?
I have a tattoo of a pink diamond with the 25 cent logo on each elbow.

5- What song comes to mind as a possible soundtrack to this story?
Fiction Factory "Feels Like Heaven"

6- You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down... (it doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical)... you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

I think you shuffled your tests together. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to run through some plate glass in a clear plastic dress.

[vomikronnoxis.livejournal.com]

5. Immigrant Song, man. Totally.

~rl

[vgo.livejournal.com]

last time, passing by, The mutant unicorn happened to scratch out (of course, unintentionally) Samson's right eye. This is the reason for 2 as well. Otherwise I'm not good in US pop culture

[poisongirl.livejournal.com]

3- He ducked when she was cutting his hair, she missed and stabbed him in the eye.
4- Yes.
5- Run to the Hills
6- I always flip the tortoise.