The Conquest of Cool Continues Apace

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1. Being an empiricist, I knew the only way to discern the answer was to take the quiz. My result:

   You’re Caliban! You see things the way they are, not the way we might wish them to be. You know that all choices in this life are an equation amounting to either truth or lie, and you choose truth. To do otherwise would be cancerous. You know that compromise is weakness and that hesitation is the manifestation of the innate death wish of lesser hippos. You did not even need to take this quiz. You know who you are. You are Caliban.

   That is so accurate it’s spooky. Therefore we know Shepherd was speaking truth.Report

   1. Does that describe Caliban or Taliban?Report

      1. Czar, Tsar, what’s the difference?Report

   2. Nice to meet you Caliban. You can call me Prospero.Report

   3. I guess I’m “Dynamo”:

      You’re Dynamo! Ambitious and strong-willed, you know the difference between right and wrong and choose right every time. A natural born leader, you may not have the patience of Shigemi or the detached judgment of Caliban (shudder), but you’re level-headed in a fight and know that empathy is the difference between barking orders and being a true leader.

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2. Is “Daniel Kibblesmith” a real person’s name? It sounds like a Groucho Marx character . Though originally he was going to be Hugo Quackenbush in Day at the Races, but there was a genuine MD of that name who objected to being portrayed as a horse doctor, so he became Hackenbush.Report

   1. He’s real, but I dunno if the name is. He made his, er, potentially fake name as part of “weird twitter.” He is rather funny at times.

      His best twitter feed is @GOPTeens.

      Good to see that Saul is up on his social media personalities.Report

      1. Is there a “non weird Twitter”?Report

      2. No, there isn’t. It is a truly frightening place.Report

      3. Its difficult to be boring in 140 characters.Report

      4. Oh, I don’t know, seems like it couldn’t be that hard to just drone on and on without saying anything of any interest or substance until youReport

      5. Serious answer for @kazzy — “weird Twitter” is this little clique of Tweeters who have this kinda out-of-context shtick. @drill is typical of the breed (https://twitter.com/dril). Anyway, it’s a thing.Report

      6. It is, in fact, a real thing.Report

      7. @leeesq “Its difficult to be boring in 140 characters.”

         That’s what Storify is for.Report

      8. I follow just a few people on Twitter, but only on the very best of days does the signal to noise ratio rise asymptotically toward one. On the other hand, it is good for keeping track of some family members who tend not to communicate otherwise.Report

   2. I thought the same thing about Zephyr Teachout. It sounded so much like an NGO, I was surprised to learn that Zephyr Teachout is the name of an actual human.Report

      1. I get the same thing with all of the various Teachouts. Also Tushnet, which sounds to me like a porn site.Report

      2. @leeesq

         Is this an environmental NGO or do they just teach about minor Greek Gods?Report

      3. @saul-degraw, why can’t it be both? Was not Zeus the God of thunder and the sky? Did not the Greeks believe that Poseidon rule over the white horses of the sea? Did they not pray to Demeter for their harvests or worship Apollo as the Sun God?Report

      4. @mike-schilling

         “Also Tushnet, which sounds to me like a porn site.”

         Or a site where bubbies can share pictures of their grandchildren?

         Did I ever tell you about my friend’s idea for a Jewish comedian social networking site? It is going to be called tummlr.Report

   3. If this person wants to be know as “Daniel Kibblesmith” on teh Intertubes, we should respect his wish and enjoy what is written without regard for the true identity of the source. No one else has ever even attempted to identify the names of the Hungry Hungry Hippos, much less glean out their respective dining characteristics, so as to divide all of humanity into one of four alignments. These are the terms on which this great public service shall be rendered, and it is not for you or I to question those terms.Report

3. In other news, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic have announced a Nirvana reunion tour with singer “Weird Al” Yankovic filling in for the deceased Kurt Cobain. “We figured, anyone who can parody the songs that accurately should be able to sing them straight too”, said Grohl.Report

4. “Daniel, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world…But for Buzzfeed?”Report

5. I keep getting Hodor.Report

   1. ITYM, “Hodor hodor hodoring Hodor.”Report

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