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- Are You a real Guy?
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- Take This Scientific Quiz to Determine Your Guyness Quotient
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- 1. Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you
- are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic
- friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated
- device that is capable of curing all disease, providing an infinite
- supply of clean energy, wiping out hunger and poverty, and permanently
- eliminating oppression and violence all over the entire Earth. You
- decide to:
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- a. Present it to the president of the United States.
- b. Present it to the secretary general of the United Nations.
- c. Take it apart.
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- 2. As you grow older, what lost quality of your youthful life do you
- miss the most?
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- a. Innocence.
- b. Idealism.
- c. Cherry bombs.
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- 3. When is it okay to kiss another male?
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- a. When you wish to display simple and pure affection without
- regard for narrow-minded social conventions.
- b. When he is the pope. (Not on the lips.)
- c. When he is your brother and you are Al Pacino and this is the
- only really sportsmanlike way to let him know that, for business
- reasons, you have to have him killed.
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- 4. What about hugging another male?
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- a. If he's your father and at least one of you has a fatal
- disease.
- b. If you're performing the Heimlich maneuver. (And even in this
- case, you should repeatedly shout: "I am just dislodging food
- trapped in this male's trachea! I am not in any way aroused!")
- c. If you're a professional baseball player and a teammate hits
- a home run to win the World Series, you may hug him provided that
- (1) He is legally within the basepath, (2) Both of you are wear-
- ing protective cups, and (3) You also pound him fraternally with
- your fist hard enough to cause fractures.
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- 5. Complete this sentence: A funeral is a good time to...
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- a. ...remember the deceased and console his loved ones.
- b. ...reflect upon the fleeting transience of earthly life.
- c. ...tell the joke about the guy who has Alzheimer's disease and
- cancer.
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- 6. In your opinion, the ideal pet is:
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- a. A cat.
- b. A dog.
- c. A dog that eats cats.
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- 7. You have been seeing a woman for several years. She's attractive and
- intelligent, and you always enjoy being with her. One leisurely Sunday
- afternoon the two of you are taking it easy-- you're watching a football
- game; she's reading the papers--when she suddenly, out of the clear blue
- sky, tells you that she thinks she really loves you, but she can no
- longer bear the uncertainty of not knowing where your relationship is
- going. She says she's not asking whether you want to get married; only
- whether you believe that you have some kind of future together. What do
- you say?
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- a. That you sincerely believe the two of you do have a future,
- but you don't want to rush it.
- b. That although you also have strong feelings for her, you
- cannot honestly say that you'll be ready anytime soon to make a
- lasting commitment, and you don't want to hurt her by holding out
- false hope.
- c. That you cannot believe the Jets called a draw play on third
- and seventeen.
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- 8. Okay, so you have decided that you truly love a woman and you want to
- spend the rest of your life with her-sharing the joys and the sorrows,
- the triumphs and the tragedies, and all the adventures and opportunities
- that the world has to offer, come what may. How do you tell her?
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- a. You take her to a nice restaurant and tell her after dinner.
- b. You take her for a walk on a moonlit beach, and you say her
- name, and when she turns to you, with the sea breeze blowing her
- hair and the stars in her eyes, you tell her.
- c. Tell her what?
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- 9. One weekday morning your wife wakes up feeling ill and asks you to
- get your three children ready for school. Your first question to her is:
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- a. "Do they need to eat or anything?"
- b. "They're in school already?"
- c. "There are three of them?"
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- 10. When is it okay to throw away a set of veteran underwear?
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- a. When it has turned the color of a dead whale and developed new
- holes so large that you're not sure which ones were originally
- intended for your legs.
- b. When it is down to eight loosely connected underwear molecules
- and has to be handled with tweezers.
- c. It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy
- checks the garbage regularly in case somebody--and we are not
- naming names, but this would be his wife--is quietly trying to
- discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because
- the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than
- with her.
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- 11. What, in your opinion, is the most reasonable explanation for the
- fact that Moses led the Israelites all over the place for forty years
- before they finally got to the Promised Land?
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- a. He was being tested.
- b. He wanted them to really appreciate the Promised Land when
- they finally got there.
- c. He refused to ask directions.
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- 12. What is the human race's single greatest achievement?
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- a. Democracy.
- b. Religion.
- c. Remote control.
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- How to Score: Give yourself one point for every time you picked answer
- "c." A real guy would score at least 10 on this test. In fact, a real
- guy would score at least 15, because he would get the special five-point
- bonus for knowing the joke about the guy who has Alzheimer's disease and
- cancer.
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- END
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