July 13, 2004

Guess the Dictator and/or Television Sit-Com Character
posted by the_bone 20 years ago
  • I'm apparently Jesse from Full House. Oh, the ignominy.
  • Not bad, I can usually stump these more often than not, but I lost four times in a row.
  • I've picked some pretty obscure characters...but it gets them every time. Impressive!
  • If I answer truthfully (for me), it guesses that I'm Blossom's Dad (from Blossom). I wanted to be the Fonz :(
  • I answered for myself (too early in morning to understand simple games...) & it said I am elaine from seinfeld!! :P argh...I suspect it had to do with my admission that I like muffin tops....
  • Stumped it with Turkmenbashi.
  • OK...finally stumped it with Abner Kravitz from Bewitched!
  • Evidently I'm Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Worst fictional alter-ego assessment ever.
  • Carlton the Doorman from Rhoda, here. Well. That didn't improve my mood.
  • Jim Ignatowski. It guessed it.
  • I've seen this before, but it was more fun to answer the questions for myself. Except that I am Nicki from Spin City, a show I never watched.
  • ohh, I love this game. It never fails to impress me with obscure characters or people, and frequently makes me laugh out loud with how wrong it can be (e.g. though Catherine the Great was perhaps Lisa from News Radio). And rocket: if it makes you feel better, it thinks I'm actually *Blossom*. Which is depressing.
  • Ooooh... nostalgia time. This was posted in the early days of MetaFilter by mathowie himself, resulting in one of the very first MetaTalk threads, posted by - well - me! Revisited in late 2002 (see? they do tolerate double posts there). Maybe we should have seperate threads for playing the game regularly vs. answering questions as yourself... (how many MoFites are Kramer, and how many are Elaine?) On my first try, the game guessed me as GILLIGAN! Changing one answer ("Do you play an instrument?" - Haven't for a while), I ended up as Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm. By the way, on the Most Wanted page, interestingly, Fidel Castro is the only Dictator who made the Top 25. Number of evil dictators and/or sit-com characters in database: 216,952 Number of times computer has won: 10,689,505 Number of times computer has lost: 5,352,464 An Intarweb Institution.
  • I am Chandler Bing, apparently. That didn't impress me, but the fact that it knew a character from brilliant but obscure show impressed me.
  • Hello, I'm Jamie Buchman from Mad About You. It was kinda depressing to keep saying "no" to all of the interesting questions. Especially about living with an alien, or having a twin, or being a chef. But I guess they don't make sitcoms about boring people. Except Jamie Buchman from Mad About You.
  • I'm Jack Tripper from Three's Company or Duff Beer Man from The Simpsons, depending on some ambiguous questions. I'm a womanizing drunk? Great...
  • I'm Miranda Hobbs from Sex and the City! I think it was the "no" answers to "do you have long blonde hair" and "are you a brunette?" leading to that inevitable conclusion. heh.
  • I'm Grace from Will & Grace. Could be flattering... but it's not. ambrosia, wanna trade? (and I did answer "yes" to long blonde hair. go figure)
  • Hmmmmmm...Miranda, or Grace? Uh, I think I'll stick with Miranda, thanks. But you can decorate my apartment! Now, if you'd offered me the chance to be Karen Walker, I might have taken you up on it, just for the carnival fun-ride aspect of it.
  • Ha! I beat it with Kip Wilson (Tom Hanks) of Bosom Buddies. But it got me with Lenny from Laverne and Shriley.
  • Ooohhh, Karen Walker. I wonder what kind of answers you'd have to be giving to get her as a result!
  • "do you drink a lot?" "are you a snob?" "do you make fun of your boss?" (yes, I tried it.)
  • First it accused me of being Jean Bertrand Aristide, (once) of Haiti. Then it decided I was Emperor Nero of Rome. Finally it identified me as Matt Hoover from Krypton. At which point I gave it a glass of cock punch and a banana. Now it's not talking to me at all.
  • John Howard. Yep, it knew.
  • Harley from Guiding Light. This is funny to me. I know guiding light is a soap, but I have no clue who Harley is on it, since I don't watch the soaps.
  • Whats even funnier is on the second time around i was Jill Taylor from Tool time. The only question I answered different was *Are you hot?* Harley=yes Jill=no. Fun post.:)
  • I am apparently Drew Carey...I can see it, I guess
  • Well it got Edward II of England but sadly failed with Thatcher.
  • I'm Chris in the Morning from Northern Exposure. Which is cool.
  • Mike Flaherty from Spin City? Is that good?
  • It gets very cross if you just answer 'yes' and 'no' alternately.
  • I actually got Karen from Will & Grace, and I don't even drink a lot. Feh. Once it homed in on "Are you a secretary?" but determined that I didn't work for anyone interesting (TV station/president/alien), I suppose it went with that as a last resort. (Besides, she's married, and I swear I said I wasn't. Outrage!)
  • I'm Richard Richard from Bottom. I've never heard of the show, so I don't know if this is a good thing.
  • This one is so much better than the newly created knockoff...
  • omg....it guessed that i'm Wolverine!....bitchen!
  • Well, you have the spiky hair.
  • IgnorantSlut! Where have ya' been? Glad to see you again.
  • Not to knock the wind out of your sail dxlifer (cuz I wish a LOT of the older monkeys would come back) but Ignorant Slut's post is about 6 months old.