Anticlimax

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No translations today. Decipher another papyrus, though, and we're in business. Till then, a silly quiz. kraada, I hope you appreciate this.

Your LiveJournal Pirate Crew LiveJournal Username Fifteen men on a dead man's chest! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!Ew... How unsanitary.*dances a jig on a dead man's chest* Cutlass or pistol? CutlassPistolTorpedoHeat vision What is the name of your pirate ship? Where is your secret pirate base? Jolly Pirate IslandTreasure IslandPleasure IslandIsland of DoomGilligan's IslandWindfall Island What kind of loot do you prefer? Pieces of eight!Bling!Babes!Booze!Crowns and scepters!Target giftcards! What do you and your crew prefer to be called? Freebooters!Swashbucklers!Corsairs!Seadogs!Desperados!Pirates, of course! Parrot or monkey? ParrotMonkeyUnicornKittenT-Rex Argh! Ahoy, matey!Avast!Shiver me timbers!I'll see you to Davy Jones!Argh! Ack! Gah! *thud* Your capable first mate kraada Your bumbling cabin boy with a heart of gold muchabstracted The aloof, yet honorable, pirate with a mysterious past yuki_onna Is always the first one into the fray strange_selkie Is the naval officer who ruthlessly pursues your ship truepenny Is the comical pirate who is always drunk on grog spectre_general Is currently in Davy Jones's locker obafugakum The amount of money you make as a pirate $13,025 This Fun Quiz created by Lynn at BlogQuiz.Net

(Cut for a second silly quiz and total, total incomprehension.)

Your Slanguage Profile

Aussie Slang: 100%

New England Slang: 75%

Prison Slang: 75%

Victorian Slang: 75%

British Slang: 50%

Canadian Slang: 25%

Southern Slang: 25%

What Slanguage Do You Speak?

How on God's green earth did I score one hundred percent Australian slang? I have never been to Australia in my life! I haven't even seen Crocodile Dundee, which I fear may be the primary American exposure to Australian culture . . . I did see Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, but that was in high school. I am bewildered. And I don't even know how to say that in Australian slang.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

I got 100% Aussie slang, too. I've seen a bit of Crocodile Hunter, but I don't think there was anything I knew from there on here. I think it was just easier to infer what the terms must mean, somehow. They're a very vivid sort of colorful.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

As in nature, thing exists to propagate itself - you see quiz, you do quiz, you post in your blog, I see quiz... etc. You can find the quiz witty, entertaining, enlightening - or you can find it so baffling that you have to ask everyone what it means. Doesn't matter to the quiz.

This one gets its results by not noticing that there might be a difference between slang you use and slang you understand (or indeed, can guess, given a multiple choice). You'd get a more accurate picture if every question had a "none of the above" option - and if it was sometimes true.

I scored high on British slang (whatever that might be) and would have scored higher on it if the common British uses of packie (or paki) and Jerry had been offered: thankfully, they weren't.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*leaps into the fray*

I got 75% New England Slang but also, interestingly enough, 75% Aussie Slang. Eh.