Al Gore or the Unabomber?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Can you tell the difference between things Al Gore said in his book "Earth in the balance" and things the Unabomber said in his manifesto?

Take the Quiz!


(this is more a frontroom style thread but I put it here because of the politics. It's just for fun)

[Kralizec]

Hmm. 42%

I'm not surprised, I read parts of the manifesto years ago. Fun quiz though.

[Whacker]

50% Haven't read either. Interesting.

[drone]

25%. (read neither)

I cast the Unabomber into the Tyler Durden role, and got most of them wrong. Gore's parts were actually more tirade-like, I should have known, he was the one trying to sell something. Outrage is the opiate of the masses, I guess.

[Lemur]

33%, which means I suck. Never read either tract, however.

[Whacker]

FearOutrage is the opiate of the masses, I guess.

Fixed that one for ya.

[seireikhaan]

25%. Ouch. At least I have the excuse of not having read either.

[Louis VI the Fat]

50%.

While I was taking the quiz I thought I had it pretty much down. I was all ready to post my 100% score and then lecture you all that there is, in fact, a big difference between the systematic madness of the Unabomber, and the appearance of madness that is simply a product of Gore's wandering creative mind....

Blimey.

[Kralizec]

I knew that they'd be pretty hard to distinguish, but I didn't think even Gore would suggest that children in the developping world live in a less destructive environment then over here. What a jerk and utter fool

[Goofball]

58%.

Don't look if you havenT taken the quiz yet:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Your score is 58%

Right Yours

1.Gore Unabomber
2.Gore Gore
3.Unabomber Unabomber
4.Gore Gore
5.Unabomber Gore
6.Unabomber Unabomber
7.Unabomber Gore
8.Gore Gore
9.Gore Unabomber
10.Unabomber Unabomber
11.Unabomber Gore
12.Gore Gore

[Rhyfelwyr]

50%.

Fear the inconvenient truth!

[ajaxfetish]

Your score is 33%

Also read neither, but still: Wow . . .

Ajax

[woad&fangs]

58%

Interesting, I didn't know that actors were buried in different cemeteries.

edit: wait, that was a Gore quote!!??

[discovery1]

17 %

Oh yeah, lowest of the low.

[KukriKhan]

Having labored through Kaczysnki's maifesto years ago (but not Gore's piece), I figured I'd slam-dunk you guys and score somewhere in the 80's.

Du-uh.

50%

[Kommodus]

Wow, just 42%.

The Unabomber makes some surprisingly cogent arguments when compared to Gore's sensationalism. Who knew?

[KukriKhan]

Wow, just 42%.

The Unabomber makes some surprisingly cogent arguments when compared to Gore's sensationalism. Who knew?

Yeah. OTOH, Gore just wants your money and your love, whereas Kaczysnki blew people up whilst opening their mail.

[Csargo]

Your score is 42%

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

[Crazed Rabbit]

50%. The same as random guessing. But relatively...

CR

[Adrian II]

I blindly ticked off 'Unabomber' at all 12 questions, i.e. without looking at the texts. My score is 50%.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I blindly ticked off 'Unabomber' at all 12 questions, i.e. without looking at the texts. My score is 50%.

I'm impressed that you managed to check the boxes at all.

[naut]

33%.

Thought that the more boring quotes would be Gore, since well ... Gore is boring. But, I guess that didn't work out, since they were all boring.

[Viking]

25%

I hadn't read either; and I had to check up Wikipedia who the Unabomber was before I took the quiz.

[lars573]

I got 67%. Which means I pass even by uni standards. Also never read either document.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Your score is 67%
Right Yours

1.Gore Unabomber
2.Gore Gore
3.Unabomber Unabomber
4.Gore Gore
5.Unabomber Unabomber
6.Unabomber Gore
7.Unabomber Unabomber
8.Gore Gore
9.Gore Unabomber
10.Unabomber Gore
11.Unabomber Unabomber
12.Gore Gore

But I just picked Unabomber first and alternated accordingly. STill the end result was 1, 6, 9,and 10 wrong.

[Whacker]

I'm impressed that you managed to check the boxes at all.

(Sorry Adrian!)

[Craterus]

I got 75% and I haven't read either.

[Adrian II]

I'm impressed that you managed to check the boxes at all.

Sorry for being too succinct, Sasaki Kojiro. I see how my reply could be construed as rude.

My 50% score merely means that the test is fair. It does not mean that I'm uninterested, unappreciative or disrespectful.

Having read both texts in the past it does not surprise me at all that the two gentlemen may be confused. If anything other peoples' test scores seem to confirm that this is the case. My own test score wouldn't add anything to the equation.

[Whacker]

@ Adrian & Sasaki - I didn't think either of your responses were rude, I thought they were meant in good humor.

[Adrian II]

@ Adrian & Sasaki - I didn't think either of your responses were rude, I thought they were meant in good humor.

I'll apologize to Sasaki Kojiro if and when I want to, you young whackersnapper.