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The Swiss Family Robinson Test

Ended up by accident on 5 yr old blog entry. I was funnier then.

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How do you tame a wild onager?
How do you make cassava bread?
How do you tame a wild eagle?

True or false:
1. When monkeys and birds eat something it is safe to eat.
2. The bottom sections of giant bamboo make capital little casks.
3. Sharkskin makes very useful buskins for climbing up the sago palm.
4. Mangrove trees are fabulous places to live.
5. If you need to preserve some larks, place them half-cooked in a tub of lard or butter, and they will be fine, although you are living near the equator.
6. It is a simple matter to attach a couple of lead bullets to the ends of a rope to make bolas, a useful throwing weapon.
7. Penguins, jackals, potatoes, cassava, acorns, sago, rubber, bananas, cotton, rice, fir, mangroves, flamingoes, kangaroos, water buffalos, agouti, peccaries, ruffed grouse, flax, sugar cane, salt caves, pearl oysters, porcupines, capybaras, giant turtles, great apes, onagers, ostriches, angora rabbits, muskrats, beavers, elephants, walruses, polar bears, boa constrictors and a platypus can plausibly be found all on one small tropical island.

Bonus question: Who in fiction said the immortal line, "The Swiss Family Robinson makes me vomit"?

Yes! I really want your answers! Who that I know, knows this sort of thing other than my sister?

If you want girl canon only you could go take this other test and add more questions to it.

Comments

(Anonymous)

minnie's answers

1. bite it's eat.
2.press all the poison out and then bake it in your conveniently wash ashore oven.
3. surround it's head in tobacco smoke until it calms down.

1.T
2.T
3.T
4.T
5.T (alternately, if you are living in a boxcar, you could probably place them in the stream in a tin can you found in the dump)
6.T
7.T (DUH!)

Bonus quetion... omg! I don't know!!!!

Re: minnie's answers

oh, Boxcar! I wouldn't mind a pine-needle pillow and some blueberries just now...

Re: minnie's answers

Bonus question: Who in fiction said the immortal line, "The Swiss Family Robinson makes me vomit"?

The Professor, on Gilligan's Island.
The funny thing is, I haven't read "Swiss Family Robinson" in probably forty years, and still knew by the first question what was being referred to--. Makes an impression when you are under 12, I guess.
7. FALSE! My mother wouldn't let me watch this movie the minute she saw one of these beasties coexisting with another.