Wednesday, August 16, 2006

TOSC Quiz No. 1

What's wrong with the following sentence?*

The Super Friends agreed Monday to consider logical help for Spider-Man's peacekeeping force in Michigan's troubled Greenville region.

The first to answer correctly wins a TOSC T-shirt!**

*TOSC members may not participate.
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14 Comments:

Blogger Bad D said...

Your search - "The Super Friends agreed Monday to consider logical help for Spider-Man's peacekeeping force in Michigan's troubled Greenville region." - did not match any documents.

8:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Since the Super Friends are made up of members of the DC Universe (you know, Superman and Batman), and Spider-Man is a part of the Marvel Universe (hangin’ with the likes of Thor, Iron Man and Captain America), I doubt the Super Friends are even aware of Spider-Man's existence. So, what is wrong with your sentence? The problem here is clear: Whoever wrote it clearly has not read enough comic books.

1:21 PM  
Blogger The Narrator said...

You're all wrong. T-shirt is still up for grabs!

2:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As far as T-shirts, I know where to get a box of LA WEEKLY pirate shirts that somebody could doctor with TOSC logo

3:50 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No hyphen in Spider-Man.

6:10 PM  
Blogger The Narrator said...

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10:20 AM  
Blogger The Narrator said...

Not true. There's very much a hyphen in "Spider-Man."

The correct answer is that "logical" should be "logistical."

We'll try this again soon with an easier quiz. Looks like we'll have to lower the bar ...

10:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

While I do agree that "logistical" would make more sense in the sentence, I don't know if I agree that you could swap out "logical" for it and preserve the original meaning of the sentence. How am I supposed to know that Spider-Man is sane and able to reason effectively and may not indeed need some "logical" help from the Super Friends?

As I am a programmer and not even close to knowing anything about grammar, my question to you is does the word replacement change the original meaning and is the original wording wrong and if so, why?

Man, I have a horrible feeling I'm about to made to feel real dumb.

1:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The problem here is that Greenville is neither troubled nor in need of peacekeeping, be it from fictional characters or otherwise. In fact, it's been more or less milk & honey there since John Green, who came from New York state in 1844, built a saw mill on the Flat River and a cabin nearby and became Greenville's first settler.

10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I believe Spider-man actuall did make it to super friends in a special crossover comic book -- too popular to deny. I think it's that it should be "logistical" help, not logical help.

Of course, I may be the only dumbass taking this question literally.

5:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, wait. I got the logistical thing before I saw the answer. I did, really.

5:49 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Super-Friends" is hyphenated. Marvel and DC Comics characters often made crossover appearances in their respective alternate universes.

4:34 AM  
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