So here they are, Friday night's RabrrrrrrBrand of questions

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. You are the manager of a Welsh coal mine. Your miners are having a righteous slugfust. You break up the fight, and find out they were arguing about the metope. The Very Important Person, the Prince, who just happens to be there doesn't know what a metope is, and so can't settle the argument. Your workers threaten to strike unless management can define it for them and settle the argument. Do your workers go on strike, or do you define it for them?

2. What was the principal like in your elementary school?

3. If you could perform with any rock (or other genre) band or person, who would it be? (and let's assume here that the band/person will ensure that you perform something you can handle, whether it be lead guitar if you are a guitarist, or thumping the bass drum if you aren't a musician).

4. You are charge of a group of 20 people, stranded God only knows where. A virus is going to attack and kill your group, unless people are innoculated. Sadly, you only have ten doses of innoculation. How do you choose the most ethical rubric through which to decide who gets the medicine?

5. You have won a major magical lottery, and can either spend one day with any one living person in the world who can speak only the truth, or have one week with any one dead person, who will be brought back to life, but who will be under no strictures of truth telling, etc. - they'll just be the person they were before they died (or, in the case of those who were sick and/or senile, at the height of their abilities). Which and whom do you choose, and why?

[Deja Q]

1. Hmmm.

1. Define it and get on with life.

2. The type that would prefer to push students through the system and didn't care if kids did the worst things to one another. (Bastard should have been fired...)

3. Drums.

4. Logical. To find out who is the more moral, intelligent, and willing to live and work for the common survival of the group while retaining some individual characteristics. Nobody need be perfect, but the most selfish don't get it. Greed is a sin.

5. One day with someone compelled to tell the truth. Why not? The world is chock full of liars as it is. It gets tiring to be played like a fuckin' violin.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. ...

Your answer to 3 was to be a band/group/musician. Who would you want to play drums with?

How do you determine the parameters of your number 4 situation? Time's a'wastin' - how you determine quickly who are the most moral, intelligent, cooperative people?

[Deja Q]

14. Oh

#3: Tough question. Either The Rolling Stones, The B-52s, or ABBA. Right now I'll go with ABBA.

How do I? Getting their background and aspirations. I'm not a leader type, so I'd probably screw it up. I am a technical worker and an artisan. So that's why I'm needed around. Oh, I also have a sense of humor and am very good in bed. That's bonus points.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. 1. I'd increase my demands

to 13 reasons why Henry III was a bad king.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. You wouldn't go straight to the Toad Elevating Moment, then?

Hmmm.....

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. No

Well, perhaps. First, I'd consider the ramifications of such an abrupt move. I've always been one to look before I leap; that may be a result of having jumped into a swimming pool when I was young — I say "young," but I was actually about 14, which isn't that young when compared to pre-adolescence or childhood...

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Oh! Now, there you're doing it! Now you're talking in a roundabout way!

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Answers

1) Other, I'd feed them to a Killer Whale

2) Hmmm, didn't have one, went to boarding school. Many deans. We did have a headmistress...Her husband's last name is Drinkwater. that makes me giggle

3) Any band where I can play the triangle

4) Age, health, and how much they piss me off on a regular basis.

5) The second, Balzac, because he looks like he was a fun guy to hang with. His statues in Paris are both ubiquitous and vibrant. And I rarely, if ever, call a statue vibrant.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. ...

Yes, but, define your parameters for number 4: age and health in what ways? Elderly first/ Middle-aged? Young? Healthy or unhealthy? Are you playing the odds int he hopes the healthy will handle the virus without the dose, or saying to hell with the sickly, let's save the healthy?

Vibrant statues - not two words I often see together. If ever. I do remember the first time I saw Rodin sculptures. I was in my 30s, and had seen a lot of statues and sculptures. Or thought I had, until I saw Rodin's, a whole room of them as part of a special display at one of the museums in NYC. Bloody amazing. Seeing them was a religious experience, and I'm not a statue or sculpture kind of fan. But his - mmmmmmm, exquisite! Absolutely sublime and profound. Never seen anything like it since, either. I wanted to own all of them. I still do.

[bicentennial_baby]

10. OMG, the Rodin museum in Paris!

Have you ever seen my pics? Here they are: http://new.photos.yahoo.com/hjb2429/album/576460762345577572

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Beautiful!!

That could be worth the trip to Paris all by itself.

Thanks for sharing!

[rbnyc]

6. OK

1. I let them fight because I don't know what it is.

2. I don't remember.

3. My favorite band is Throwing Muses, but I would perform with Sonic Youth. I would have something to add there and I would really enjoy it. I would play guitar and sing. I can handle whatever they throw at me.

4. If I have the power to choose how the choice is made, I assume I have the power to choose period. I choose based on my own subjective personal preference and sense of who deserves to live. I choose myself and the 9 people I like best. I don't feel bad about it.

5. I choose to hang out with John Cage. I always thought we were destined to meet. I feel we have a lot to talk about. I was devastated when he died.

[Deep13]

7. selective answers

"1. You are the manager of a Welsh coal mine. Your miners are having a righteous slugfust. You break up the fight, and find out they were arguing about the metope. The Very Important Person, the Prince, who just happens to be there doesn't know what a metope is, and so can't settle the argument. Your workers threaten to strike unless management can define it for them and settle the argument. Do your workers go on strike, or do you define it for them?"

I tell them a 'metope' is a term that describes getting the sack for fighting on the job about stupid shit.

"2. What was the principal like in your elementary school?"

I don't know, having never been sent to his office.

"3. If you could perform with any rock (or other genre) band or person, who would it be? (and let's assume here that the band/person will ensure that you perform something you can handle, whether it be lead guitar if you are a guitarist, or thumping the bass drum if you aren't a musician)."

I have no interest in entertaining others.

"4. You are charge of a group of 20 people, stranded God only knows where. A virus is going to attack and kill your group, unless people are innoculated. Sadly, you only have ten doses of innoculation. How do you choose the most ethical rubric through which to decide who gets the medicine?"

Easy, wait until there are only ten left. Frankly, I would not be remotely concerned about ethics in that situation. I'm inject myself, my wife if she was there and the ones most likely to help me and themselves survive. I would be sure to exclude any devisive assholes.

"5. You have won a major magical lottery, and can either spend one day with any one living person in the world who can speak only the truth, or have one week with any one dead person, who will be brought back to life, but who will be under no strictures of truth telling, etc. - they'll just be the person they were before they died (or, in the case of those who were sick and/or senile, at the height of their abilities). Which and whom do you choose, and why?"

My Dad, because I never got a chance to say good-bye and ask what I should have done. I don't really care if he is any more honest than he ever was.

[Joe Fields]

12. I have the answers to your dilemnas...

1) You tell the miners to follow you into town. The drinks are on you. (That's always a deal maker)

2)My principal liked Picasso, but not van Gough. Could take or leave Dali, but loved Magritte. Liked Marcus Welby, M.D., but not Dr. Kildare. Would only eat the school's chipped beef and gravy with just a pinch of Saffron. Otherwise, he wouldn't touch it.

3)Drummer for the Jefferson Airplane, if for no other reason than the hellacious parties they must have had.

4)Easy. Only those people who know what the hell rubric means would be allowed to live.

5)I would spend the day with Joni Mitchell, because no one has ever put into words how I feel, deep down to my soul with as much accuracy as she.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Too many words, fuck that shit.

[Omphaloskepsis]

16. Obscure words don't make you look smart.

FWIW.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. But without that obscure word, the joke of question 1 is dead.

It's required.

Otherwise, I'm not sure what you're talking about. I used no obscure words. Except to make the joke in question 1, though Monty Python actually made that joke more than 30 years ago. Oeditpus Rex got the joke, but he's a Python fan.

[hellbound-liberal]

17. Great questions Rabrrrrrr! Here are my responses:

1. I like the suggestion to go into town for a round of drinks while the Prince goes to find the answer.

2. Way too far back to remember, though I do remember my 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Shuler who was a hottie!

3. Playing drums for the Dixie Chicks. The focus wouldn't be on my playing and I would get to hang out with the Chicks!

4. I would ask for volunteers to forgo the inoculation and give the doses to them.

5. Have to be my Mother cause we really didn't have enough time together.

[DS1]

19. hmm, late, but here goes

( sorry, I was in the gungeon unsuccessfully trying to get people to justify their need for a .50 cal rifle )

1. A metope is by-product of filling an occupied mine with water. They all find this out.

2. Definitely a screamer, especially when the drill came out.

3. Slide-whistler for Stevie Ray Vaughn

4. Foot race. Big tits gives you a 50 yard head start.

5. meh. I'm all set.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. The reason that *I* need a .50 cal rifle is because Iraq wants to take my religion away.

:P

[DS1]

21. Oh god, I think you've just helped me tap the answer to it all

.50 is half of one, the bible is half, the koran is another half, together they become one. Shooting a .50 cal rifle through both a bible and a koran will unlock the answers of the universe, and bring humanity together as one. The only question is, which book goes in front?

Gungeon meets Zen Koan

:cry: