Irregular Times

Netting Quizzical Beliefs

November 28th, 2011 | Posted by Rowan in Religion - (0 Comments)

This weekend, a friend invited me to take the Belief-O-Matic quiz, which purports to be able to tell me what my religious practice ought to be. All this religious test could reveal to me, though, was what paths I would not take. It was not within the scope of the Belief-O-Matic’s design to consider what positive ideas and modes of meaning I might have.

The professed identity of “atheist” limits me in a similar way, I think… and that’s all that I can gain from subjecting myself to the Blinkered Vision of Belief-O-Matic.

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Pop Quiz on Political Interviews. Oh, Snap!

October 28th, 2010 | Posted by Jim Cook in Election 2010 | Media | Politics | Republicans - (3 Comments)

Do you have what it takes to run for public office? Take this simple one-question quiz to find out!

1. You show up for an interview on live radio, streamed onto the web. When you are asked a policy question you don’t like, do you:

a) answer the question as best you can
b) ignore the question and talk about something else
c) perform a hex on the interviewer, or
d) snap your fingers to summon an aide, demand that records of the interview be destroyed, and threaten to crush the interviewer with a lawsuit unless he complies?

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Constitution Day Quiz

September 17th, 2010 | Posted by Truman in Legislation - (1 Comments)

Today, September 17, is Constitution Day. In honor of this occasion, here’s a very short Constitution quiz for you:

Which word is found in the Constitution more often:
A. Property
B. War
C. Crime
D. Indians

Which phrase is included in the Constitution:
A. Pursuit of happiness
B. Our creator
C. Promote the general welfare
D. The rectitude of our intentions

Who did not sign the Constitution:
A. George Washington
B. John Adams
C. James Madison
D. Alexander Hamilton

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Which Greek God Are You?

August 2nd, 2010 | Posted by F. G. Fitzer in Irregular Ideas | Religion - (4 Comments)

Apparently, everyone who goes into the online world is a Greek god. That’s the message of the banner advertisement you see below, which I found this afternoon, attempting to seduce unwary passers-by, like a siren, to jump into a dangerous online territory masquerading as a sort of mythological Cosmo quiz.

Which Greek god are you?

Maybe, if you can’t remember which Greek god you are, you’re Amnesia the Greek goddess of forgetfulness.

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Irregular Photographic Quiz

December 10th, 2009 | Posted by Rowan in Puzzles | Questions | Science - (7 Comments)

Part 1: Look at the photograph below, and write in the comments below your guess of what it is.

Part 2: Go to the original, larger photograph, and read the caption to see what it actually is.

Were you close? I wasn’t.

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Political Stereogram: Coverage and Days Left for Patriot Act and FISA Reform

Look deep and hard at these images and you will find answers to these questions:

How Many Days Left Until the House Judiciary Committee Marks Up H.R. 3845, a Bill to Reauthorize Provisions of the Patriot Act Until 2013, and H.R. 3846, a Bill to Reform the FISA Amendments Act?

Stereogram containing the answer to the question: how many days until Patriot Act markup in the House Judiciary Committee?

How Many Newspaper Articles Have Been Written about H.R. 3845?

Number of Newspaper Articles Written as of late October 2009 Regarding H.R. 3845, Patriot Act Reauthorization

I’ll leave you to guess how many newspaper articles have been written about H.R. 3846.

Learn more here.

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Which Window Shows the Jesup Virgin Mary?

October 22nd, 2009 | Posted by F. G. Fitzer in Religion - (17 Comments)

The Virgin Mary has been getting around. She started out in a piece of toast, went to a garage door in Pennsylvania, and appeared in an underpass in Texas. Now, fresh from her appearance in Samoa, our lady of the smudgy vision has brought her world tour to a car wash in Jesup, Georgia, where the owner says that an image of Our Lady Of The Two For One Special has appeared in a window. He’s put the Virgin Mary window on a special display, so that people can come to pray, and to wash their cars.

What does this Virgin Mary apparition in a window look like? You can see it right below. One of these photographs shows the window from Jesup that’s supposed to be the Virgin Mary. Can you choose which one is the holy apparition, and not a smudge?

We’ve been told before by some of our readers that an apparition of the Virgin Mary is a warning that a tsunami will soon take place – just like happened in Samoa. So, should the residents of Jesup, Georgia start preparing for the mother of all tidal waves?

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Which Is The Cameron Lake Monster?

September 22nd, 2009 | Posted by F. G. Fitzer in Mysteries - (4 Comments)

There is a monster lurking somewhere deep in the waters of Cameron Lake, British Columbia, some say. The evidence for a monster living in Cameron Lake is so compelling that cryptozoologist John Kirk has made an expedition to the lake himself… two years after he said he would consider launching such a journey. Kirk lives in British Columbia, an easy day’s journey from the lake.

Speculation began when Brigette Horvath spotted a strange movement in the water back in 2007, and three things circling in the water. What were these things? “Objects or creatures,” said Horvath, providing the cryptozoological community the specific eyewitness information it needed to begin a credible investigation. Horvath managed to photograph what she saw. That photograph is one among the following.

Are you ready to join the honored ranks of cryptozoologists? Take this quiz to see: Identify the photograph that is supposed to show the Cameron Lake monster. Your prize if you get it right: A free membership in the Canadian Cryptozoological Society of Canada.