- 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 Earth. You decide to:
- Present it to the President of the United States.
- Present it to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
- Take it apart to see how it works.
- As you grow older, what lost quality of your youth do you miss
the most?
- Innocence.
- Idealism.
- Cherry bombs.
- When is it okay to kiss another male?
- When you wish to display simple and pure affection without
regard for narrow-minded social conventions.
- When he is the Pope (but not on the lips).
- When he is your brother, 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.
- What about hugging another male?
- If he's your father and at least one of you has a fatal
disease.
- If you're performing the Heimlich maneuver. Even in this case,
you should repeatedly shout: "I am just dislodging food trapped in
this man's trachea! I am not in any way aroused!"
- 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:
- He is legally within the basepath,
- Both of you are wearing protective cups, and
- you also pound him fraternally with your fist hard
enough to cause fractures.
- Complete this sentence: A funeral is a good time to ...
- Remember the deceased and console the loved ones.
- Reflect upon the fleeting transience of earthly life.
- Tell the joke about the guy who has Alzheimer's disease and
cancer.
- In your opinion, the ideal pet is:
- A cat.
- A dog.
- A dog that eats cats.
- 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 suddenly, out of the clear blue
sky, she tells you that she thinks she really loves you, but 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?
- That you sincerely believe the two of you do have a future, but
you don't want to rush it.
- 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.
- That you cannot believe the Jets called a draw play on third and
seventeen.
- 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?
- You take her to a nice restaurant and tell her after dinner.
- 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.
- Tell her what?
- 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:
- "Do they need to eat or anything?"
- "They're in school already?"
- "There are three of them?"
- When is it okay to throw away a set of veteran underwear?
- 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.
- When it is down to eight loosely-connected underwear molecules
and has to be handled with tweezers.
- 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.
- 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?
- He was being tested.
- He wanted them to really appreciate the Promised Land when they
finally got there.
- He refused to ask directions.
- What is the human race's single greatest achievement?
- Religion.
- Democracy.
- Remote control.
How to Score: Give yourself one point for every time you picked answer
"c". A Real Man would score at least 10 on this test. In fact, a
Real Man 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. |