Based on my score on the Pew "News IQ" test -- 91st percentile of participants (with 11 of 12 answers correct). (The one I got wrong is the second-least likely question for folks to get right -- though evidently that makes me and others headline-worthy.)

I suspect BD will get 100%, and perhaps DOF, but I'm not sure who else I know is enough of a news wonk to do so.

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Your result for The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test... 

Eeyore

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So Boing-Boing ran a story a few days back: 1939 marital rating scale for wives - Boing Boing 

George W. Crane, MD, was a marriage counselor and wrote a syndicated national newspaper column called "The Worry Clinic." He developed a test in the late 1930s called the Marital Rating Scale -- Wife's Chart.

Actually, it turns out (due to someone who quite nicely scanned the whole thing to Flickr) that the test has both a Marital Rating Scale for Husbands and Wives. And while, mebbe, the Wifely Test is a bit more sexist than the Husbandly page, there's plenty of ... um ... interesting cultural items in both categories.

One accures wifely demerits on the test for "wears red nail polish," "wears pajamas while cooking" (or "wears pajamas instead of a nightgown"), "fails to wash top of milk bottle before opening it," and "insists on driving the car when husband is along." Hubbies can get demerits for "argues with or curses other rmotorists," "objects to wife's driving auto," or being "angry if newspaper is disarranged."

The test was based on interviews with 600 husbands and 600 wives, in which they listed "the chief merits and demerits" of their spouses, further weighted by Crane based on "my judgment as a psychologist and physician." (Commentary from the APA.) And, yes, someone really needs to translate this into an online test.

For what it's worth, doing it manually, and without going into actual scores, Margie and I both ranked as "Very Superior." Ahem.

Now, if only she darned my socks and wouldn't put her cold feet on me at night. *Sigh* At least we scored big-time on the "ardent" and "delighted" "marital congress" questions ...

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Huh. I actually saw that movie.  

(via BD)

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It's good to help others.

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Via Les:

List 5 things you still do, that you did when you were a baby/little kid.

Some of the below stretch "little kid"dom, but not by all that much..

1. I still avoid bananas and raw tomatoes like the vile and disgusting things they are.
2. I still watch Star Trek. Though having a DVR makes it easier to time-shift.
3. I still sleep well at night, usually. I was (I'm told) a placid baby
4. I still don't keep my desk / room clean.
5. I still read. A lot.

I dunno -- maybe my Mom can think of a few other things. :-)

Won't tag anyone, but feel free to take up the thread ...

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I have taken to choosing mugs as my "wow, I like this graphic / want to remember this place / want to show of my fanboyishness about this book / movie / TV show" icon of choice. Used to be t-shirts, but they have two big problems. (1) It's way too easy to get too many t-shirts (just glance in my closet some time, please don't), and (2) t-shirts, if you wear them, wear out. Then you have to get rid of them, which is sorrowful, or they go into the gardening / knock-around t-shirt drawer, which also quickly spirals into "old man living alone found crushed under pile of old t-shirts" proportions.

So I've changed to mugs, since they usually don't fade much, they are useful, you can put them into peoples' hands (or let them search through themselves), they don't take up much space, and are generally much more durable (Jackie's chortling maniacally right now).

We have a lot of mugs in the basement, but here's what we have up in the kitchen cabinet at the moment. Consider this one of those personal "surveys of stuff" that either reveals all sorts of stuff about Margie and my psyche, or else is utterly boring and you should go on to the next post.

Or, maybe, I should make this one of those "meme" thangs -- Besides the stock coffee cups in your dinnerware, what sort of coffee mugs do you have sitting around your house? 

• Far Side "Fat Woman Being Sucked into a Candy Store"
• Hellboy BPRD logo.
• The Tiger that Katherine drew for her art class last fall.
• IX
• Les Miserables (from the UK)
• Stonehenge (from the UK)
• Reduced Shakespeare Company "I Love My Willy" (from the UK)
• Dilbert "Supermodel"
• Dork Tower "Igor 'Huzzah!'"
• Mars (part of a series of planet mugs I got from the Field Museum in the late 80s)
• London Transport "Mind the Gap" (from the UK)
• Cheshire Cat (vanishes when the cup is empty, except for the smile)
• Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, with sheep logo
• ZEBRA ALERT!
• Starbucks "Cymru / Wales" (from the UK)
• Starbucks Skyline Series One "Denver"
• Starbucks "Colorado"
• Starbucks "Los Angeles"
• Starbucks City Scenes "Los Angeles"
• 9 Chickweed Lane "What is Love?"
• Foglio "Ask Me About My Evil Plan"
• Foglio "Winslow 'Hi!'"
• Foglio "... is a BAD PLAN!"
• Foglio "Heterodyne Coffee"
• Foglio "Don't Make Me Come Over There!"
• Scenic Colorado
• Scenic Los Angeles*
• EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival 2006 (shaped like a garden pot)
• Disney - Pooh Drawing Guide
• Disney - Tigger Drawing Guide
• Disney "Stitch Hawaiian Coffee"
• Disney "Tink Fairyland English Tea"
• Disney "Tink Walt Disney World"
• Disney "Many Faces of Tink"
• Get Fuzzy "My and the Shirt's Nerdnesses Stack"

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An iTunes meme via John Kovalic:

How many songs total: 8,269
How many hours or days of music: 18.5 days
Most recently played: "Recoil" by Kevin Riepl
Most played: "Dr Who - Opening Theme (Eccleston)" by Ron Granier, Murray Gold (19 times)*
Most recently added: "Not Ready to Make Nice" by the Dixie Chicks

Sort by song title:
First Song: "A" by the Barenaked Ladies
Last Song: "99 Luftballoons" by Nena

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: "Star Trek TOS - End Sting" (:05)
Longest Song: "Gwilan's Harp" by Patrick Ball (30:05)

Sort by album:
First album: "Aa! Megami-sama - the Complete vocal Selection"
Last album: "The '80s Hit(s) Back"
First song that comes up on Shuffle: "When You Dream" by the Barenaked Ladies

Search the following and state how many songs come up:

Death - 23
Life - 131
Love - 299
Hate - 5
You - 637
Sex - 13

Most Represented Artist:  The Beatles (151 songs)

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Which are, of course, an excuse for folks to talk about about themselves, in the guise of (publicly) talking "just answering the quiz." Pandora's meme via BD:

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. Absotively. And quite happy to be there, too.

2) What was your dream growing up?
A. At various times a lawyer, a teacher a computer programmer, a journalist, a history professor ....

3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. I wish I were better with casual people skills.

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. At a lunch, most likely iced tea. If a soda, a diet cola (preferably a Coke Zero). If a wine, a Zinfandel (red, natch). If mixed drinks, a gin martini, very dry, with a twist.

5) Favorite vegetable?
A. Corn, most likely.

6) What was the last book you read?
A. Just today finished Jim Butcher's latest Harry Dresden novel, White Night (review likely to follow soon).

7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Capricorn. If one believed in such things, one would point to my relative conservatism (not so much political as existential) as proof of that.

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. None. Needles and other flesh-piercing bits are so not my bag, baby -- and my tastes vary such that getting a tattoo is almost a guarantee for lifelong regret. I can imagine, were I not a Professional at an Engineering Company, possibly getting an ear stud, but it's all generally unlikely.

9) Worst Habit?
A. Followin my innate fear of making a fool of myself.

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. I generally dress nicely and look friendly, even harmless, so -- assuming I actually got up the nerve to hitchhike -- probably so.

11) What is your favorite sport?
A. Golf.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. I have an innate optimism about people and things. I also tend to be contrarian, so in the midst of other optimists, I'll be the one pointing out all the possibilities of things going wrong.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Engage in idle chit-chat. Talk about families, passtimes, etc. If you decided to be anti-social, I'd likely have a book with me I could read.

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Dealing with a profoundly mentally/emotionally disturbed spouse for, oh, two years or so. Ironically, in some ways, also the best thing that ever happened to me (in terms of outcomes and personal growth).

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. My brother-in-law and I were born in the same hospital -- and my wife and brother were also born in the same (different) hospital, only a few weeks apart..

16) Do you have any pets?
A. Two cats, at the moment..

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. Nngyeah, politeness, hey-how's-it-going, but likely somewhat antisocial behavior in my part. I'm an introvert (people close to me roll my eyes at the understatement) and tend to react less hospitably than I think I should when thrust into social situations I'm not expecting or prepared for.

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)
A. [Okay, at this point I have to presume it's the person I inherited the quiz from.] Big smiles, sense of humor / bon mots, wide range of interests.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Never have gotten into the scary-clowns meme.

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. For the love of God, please do something about my complexion.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Conscience, most likely.

22) What color eyes do you have?
A. Hazel.

23) Ever been arrested?
A. Nope.

24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Individual serving bottles > cans > 2L bottles.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Fix the thrice-bedamned sewer line problem in the front yard.

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
A. Home.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. I am rational enough to mistrust others' anecdotal evidence, and romantic/emotional enough to be influenced by my own.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. If pressed to a single thing, read.

30) Do you swear a lot?
A. More than I used to, and less than I used to. Having a 7-year-old daughter makes one sensitive to such things.

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. I have a zillion of them. The first that comes to mind (though I sense it's not the "biggest") is kids commercials / shows where the point is to show what idiots adults / parents are. Folks who mistake aesthetics for morality are probably a bigger one, though.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Nice. (If I had two words, I'd probably fall back on the Douglas Adams "Mostly Harmless.")

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. I am a hopeless romantic, yes. Though, in the face of others being romantic, that contrarian streak tends to come to the fore.

35) Do you believe in God?
A. Yup. Though I tend to be more than a scosh heterodox in what I think She's like.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A. QED.

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(via j-walk) 

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