What kind of subsim skipper are you?

CASUAL SUBSIM SKIPPER
You fell in love with Aces of the Deep. Your playing style is relaxed, more for fun than historical accuracy. You always play Sub Command or Dangerous Waters from the NavMap (rightclick is your friend), if you ever ventured to play them at all. Probably you prefer WWII subsims like Silent Hunter 3, SH4 and Aces. You may try the manual TDC, but you prefer to leave the auto map contacts on, (blank maps scare you). Even though you know submarine skippers missed targets occasionally in real life, you cannot resist reloading a mission to take another shot at a 10,000-tonne troopship that got away. One ship, one torpedo, finished off with the deck gun--that's the creed you live by.

Found at Subsim.com.

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Amusing.

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Gratuitously stolen from Robbo:

Which Saint Would You Be?

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Since I, like Robbo, don't have the slightest clue about any saints other than the ones in the Bible, I had to look this lass up. From her entry at the Catholic Forum, "From her earliest life, she paid no attention to this world, focused solely on the spiritual life. Founded the Congregation of Minims of the Sorrowful Mother who concentrate on ministering in hospitals and elementary schools to the sick, the aged, the lonely, and a prayer ministry for the poor. Since her death, her voice has been heard in the houses of her order, accompanying her sisters in song."

Her feast day(?) is 13th July, if I read the data correctly. And great, she haunts the houses of her order. Wonderful! I hope nobody calls the Ghostbusters. At least her heart seems to be in the right place, although I'd be interested in knowing what specific miracles were attributed to her in the canonization process.

For further information on this woman, here is an official(?) Vatican page on her.

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I cruised through Absinthe & Cookies this morning, and found a quiz which generates a bumper sticker for you based upon your type of automobile. Ith got this; I got the following:

Your Bumper Sticker Should Be

If you can read this, I can stop suddenly and sue you

What Bumper Sticker Should Be On Your Car?

Yeah, this came from 19 June 2006, but what's two weeks among friends? Nevertheless, I'm pretty surprised to have gotten this, given that such a statement is, more accurate than not in the Commonwealth. Bloody packet sniffers!

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Which OS are You?

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Tip of the Wisconsin hat to TexasBestGrok.

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You scored as Mom and Dad. You are Calvin's mom and dad. Though sometimes Calvin drives you wild, you manage to keep him under control, and sometimes you even get rewards from it. Sometimes... What Calvin & Hobbes character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

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Getting the same answer as Robbo is probably grounds to go leap off a bridge. However, if I can get the same answer as him, perhaps I could substitute myself for him in this picture. "Hey baby, I really dig your national high-speed rail network. Let us consider the existential questions of the deeper meaning of the TGV system..."

Vive le France!

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A quiz after my own heart, lifted from bluepyramid.org.

Yee haw.

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You scored as Darth Vader. Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

Tee hee.

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24th February 2004:

YOU ARE RULE 11!

You were designed to make sure that attorneys in federal cases make reasonable inquiries into fact or law before submitting pleadings, motions, or other papers. You were a real hardass in 1983, when you snuffed out all legal creativity from federal proceedings and embarassed well-meaning but overzealous attorneys. You loosened up a bit in 1993, when you began allowing plaintiffs to make allegations in their complaints that are likely to have evidenciary support after discovery, and when you allowed a 21 day period for the erring attorney to withdraw the errant motion. Sure, you keep everything running on the up and up, but it's clear that things would be a lot more fun without you around.

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30th May 2005:

YOU ARE RULE 8(a)!

You are Rule 8, the most laid back of all the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. While your forefather in the Federal Rules may have been a stickler for details and particularity, you have clearly rebelled by being pleasant and easy-going. Rule 8 only requires that a plaintiff provide a short and plain statement of a claim on which a court can grant relief. While there is much to be lauded in your approach, your good nature sometimes gets you in trouble, and you often have to rely on your good friend, Rule 56, to bail you out.

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I'm sure that there's a psych type in the audience who could explain this to me. Please take the opportunity to do so; it's always fun hearing those sorts of explanations.

Meanwhile, I'll be mourning the apparent destruction of my car's CD player. How'm I supposed to drive down the road listening to Lisa Gerrard or Liz Phair? Thank God the radio still works; if I couldn't get the local NPR affiliate and others, I'd probably be inspired to do "something rash", as an annoying protocol droid once put it.

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Rongorongo (Easter Island, C.E. 1800)
You are RONGORONGO. You are the script of the
language Rapanui. The language is still spoken,
but no one can read the script. Are you
ideographic? Phonetic? Ideo-phonetic?
Hieroglyphic? A comic strip? Illustrations for
a fairy tale? No one knows.

Which Indecipherable Script Are You?

Er, right. Uhh, hey Beavis...

Confused tip of the Executor hat to Comrade Commissar.

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You have earned the blue lightsaber. You are
skilled in the ways of the Jedi, and the Force
is strong with you. You have a mind of your
own, and sometimes do things your own way, but
always for the good. You are looked up to by
the young and are strongly respected for your
decisions.

Which Star Wars Lightsaber Should You Have?

You wield a red lightsaber.

Star Wars: What colour lightsaber should you wield?

Red. This color is usually held by ones who follow
the Dark Side and usually called a Sith Saber.
If you are in the Jedi Council with a saber
like this, I suggest you hide it as best you can
for it often shows you are a Sith.

What Color is your lightsaber?

Blue

What Color Lightsaber Are You?

You are Blue!
You are cunning and brave. Yet you use all
resources in your power to promote peace as the
outcome of any fight. Similar Jedi include
Luke Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi.

What colour lightsaber do you use?

FINAL SCORE: 3 red, 3 blue. Note to self: Stay away from overly-friendly politicians who claim a persecution complex that only I can help resolve. Actually, that would keep me from ever responding to any direct mail fundraising efforts, as well. That works. Now to figure out what to do with that last banner, if not to resize it.

Upon reflection, red and blue seem to be the predominant colors of my Red Sox hat as well. Yee haw.

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You were destined to have a red lightsaber.

Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is
associated with energy, war, danger, strength,
power, and determination as well as passion and
desire. You have seen the strength and power of
the Dark Side of the Force and you thirst
for more of it.


What Color Lightsaber Would You Have?
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Heh heh heh. I think I wound up with red lightsabers by the end of Knights of the Old Republic games anyways, when I wasn't using blue. The plan for my current KOTOR II game is silver, or perhaps cyan. Red and blue dual wielding's also in the works.

Country Pundit, Sith Lord of the Commonwealth of Virginia. I could get used to that.

Tip of the Executor hat to Absinthe & Cookies.

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That's a nice description, but I would have preferred either some of the Cold War-era types (i.e. B-52 Stratofortress, B-58 Hustler, F-104 Starfighter, F-106 Delta Dart) or something like the F-14 Tomcat. I've had a long love-hate relationship with the F-15, which all got started back when I was a kid, and found out that the F-15 development program made copious use of former F-102A Delta Dagger fighters as drone targets for the AN/APG-63 radar & AIM-7 Sparrow missile combination. Later on, somewhere in the 1990s, I came about and decided to embrace the thing. It didn't hurt that I'd read the following (paraphrased) description of the F-15 program:

"It was a typical American fighter: Developed in tremendous haste against an imagined threat (the MiG-25 Foxbat), it cost an absolute fortune, overran its budget multiple times, and wrecked several other procurement programs. But it was also the best land-based air superiority fighter in the world, and has been for fifteen years."

Nevertheless: I don't actually have a combat record, but I did manage to do pretty good in law school once I actually got in the courtroom. Southern charm still goes a long way, especially when delivered in an understated "let's be reasonable" manner.

I dunno about my looks. I'm a man; so long as I've shaved recently and had a haircut in the last month or so, I'm fine, thank you. I suppose my reputation preceded me on several occasions; it always helps, whether it be to put the other side to sleep or to earn their respect, depending. Yee haw.

Fast, agile and loud? Two out of three ain't bad; I'm too old to be agile. But my hand-eye coordination's still good, thanks to a steady diet of computer games. Nearing the end of stardom my foot; the F-15C can still slaughter most anything in the skies, thank you. That is, if they'd give it the AIM-120B and AIM-9X with helmet-mounted sight. Kinda like Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven switching from pistol to shotgun.

Tip of the Imperial Navy officer's hat to Llama Butchers. Bring back the Star Wars logo!

UPDATE: Well, I spoke too soon about that 'slaughter most anything in the skies' bit. It appears that, when compared to the Su-35 (one of the more up-to-date Russian fighters), the Eagle loses nastily, requiring 1.3 lost F-15Cs to kill 1 Su-35. D'oh!

And yes, I'm well aware that the Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker may very well be superior to the F-15; I've been playing the Su-27 Flanker series of flight simulators since 1996. You've gotta love that beautiful Russian crane.

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Interesting. I'd been hoping for either Grand Moff Wilhuf Tarkin or Admiral Firmus Piett, but the absolute ruler of the galaxy and probable ancestor to Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman will have to do. I don't look like that, though.

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This here's a new quiz that I stole from Kim du Toit. Had to clean it up a bit on capitalization and so forth. The thing's a bit long, so I put it in the extended entry. more...

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Found an interesting quiz at Quizilla, Which British Newspaper Are You?.

I took it the first time and found I was the Daily Mail. I'd never heard of that one, so I tried again, and got The Sun. After a period of embarrassment, I tried one last time and got the Daily Telegraph, which made a lot more sense.

Would the British readership care to comment upon the accuracy of the test, and also which of those papers The Country Pundit resembles? more...

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Well, these aren't results---yet---but I figured I'd pass the URL along for starters:

Four-Axis Political Test

Referred to me via e-mail. I'm off to take it now, and results will be reported in this space.

UPDATE: After taking 179-odd questions, here's my four-axis score:
Conservative: 148
Liberal: 7
Libertarian: 8
Communist: 16

It looks like I've been hanging around The Politburo Diktat a bit too much. Heh heh heh.

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You are Charlie Brown!


Which Peanuts Character are You?
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So I went surfing over at Quizilla and dredged up the following results:

Your parents are very wise and will always be fair with you. They also give very good presents that seem cheesy until you realize that they are exactly what you need. Your mother is as beautiful as the dawn, which means that you will be handsome. Arwen is your niece; Elladan and Elrohir are your nephews. Elrond’s your brother in law.

Your mother’s a psychic, which means that you can never, ever lie to her. She’s the disciplinarian and will do her best to see that you become a wise and noble elf. All of your male friends will want to hang out at your flat constantly, in order to look at your mom.

Your father will try to be your best friend. He’s the one to ask when you want money for concert tickets or permission to go to a party. Since he’ll really want to impress you with his hipness, you’ll be forced to listen to him butcher teenage jargon. For example: “What up, homechild? Thou are trippin’ in that tunic, yo.” Try to keep him from doing this in public. Even with all that, Celeborn will spoil you—you’ll enjoy it—so live it up!

Some elements of the parenting quiz have been re-arranged as a result of your correspondent's monomaniacal interest in better format and whatnot. I'm a law student; it's my job to mess up other peoples' writings.

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You are Homer! An epic poet circa 800 B.C., Homer
is the expression of the ancient Greek ideal.
His characters embark upon long and wordy
quests and engage in battles of heroic length.
Monsters are slain and cities are razed. Fun
and glory all around!


Which famous poet are you? (pictures and many outcomes)
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Tip of the Wisconsin hat to Boots and Sabers.

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