Until I come up with something else for you to read, here’s a fun Maclean’s quiz to keep you busy and hopefully sharp. Your aim is to do better than Peter Dyakowski, Hamilton Tigercat and “Canada’s Smartest Person”, a title he earned by winning a 2012 CBC Television trivia show of which I have no …
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I Woke Up This Mornin’, And Autogenerated Myself A Blues Name
If you’ve got 15 seconds kicking around that you’re not using for anything, why not cruise on over here and figure out what your blues musician name should be? This bit of triviality has been brought to you by Blind Gumbo Bailey. Wait, how the hell did this thing know I was blind?
Pop Quiz! Who Said The Stupid Thing: Rob Ford Or Mayor Quimby
Michelle sent me another great Rob Ford link. I hope you’ve got your thinking caps on for this one. Since entering public service as a city councilor in 2000, Ford has been known for his odd and improper public behavior and comments, a habit that only got worse after he was elected mayor in 2010. …
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Which Is It? Celebrity Baby Name Or Computer Virus
Here’s a fun little quiz to test your knowledge of celebrity children, computer viruses or in my case, neither. I only scored 45%, which says a lot about…something. I guess I shouldn’t feel too badly, though. The average is only 52%. CELEBRITY BABY NAME OR COMPUTER VIRUS?
What Do Your Tweets Say About The Kind Of Person You Are?
Here’s something kind of fun to waste a few minutes on. Actually scratch that, I’m sure I could waste far more than a few minutes on AnalyzeWords punching people into this thing and seeing if it comes back with anything close to what I think of them. What does AnalyzeWords do? AnalyzeWords helps reveal your …
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Black Friday Body Count: Some Photos And Some Skill Testing Questions
This won’t do me any good, but since a lot of you really like pictures, here’s a little something they’re calling Black Friday In 41 Absolutely Horrifying Photos. Whoever did this wrote just enough to make it into something I really wish I could look at. If any of the good describers around here want …
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I Want A New Drug
Our aim isn’t to get you addicted to anything you’re not already on, but this sort of thing is fun sometimes. So if you’ve been thinking about experimenting with something new, there’s now a “Which Drug is For You?” quiz you can take. Just answer a few simple questions and the system will spit you …
The A-Z Of Steve
No idea why every now and then I am moved to do something like this, but people seem to like them as a kind of get to know the guy you may tell to die in a fire when he writes something you don’t like sort of thing, so here’s the A-Z of me. A: …
Put Your Twitter Presence On The Couch
A while back, I was poking around Twitter to see who I could find. I found someone, but he had abandoned his Twitter account. But one of his last tweets referenced a site called TweetPsych. Because I’m always fascinated by quizzes and stuff, I thought hey, what the heck? So I punched my Twitter username …
Title Of The Song
Barb did this quiz last week, and I’ve been meaning to do it, but goddamn it, it’s hard. Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat a song title. Artist: I’m going to change the rules. You guess the artist. Steve, you can’t guess, you saw me trying …