OK, Go Ahead and Call Him "Shirley"

November 2, 2007 9:47 AM

Friday Fun Filter: Try to match the male celebrities with their decidedly feminine middle names.
posted by Oriole Adams (19 comments total)

Jesus, like the Gere gerbil rumor wasn't debilitating enough.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 9:53 AM on November 2, 2007

Ugh. Zero.
posted by klangklangston at 9:53 AM on November 2, 2007

Heh. "Eat your green beans, Quincy Delight!"
posted by brain_drain at 9:59 AM on November 2, 2007

10%. Shameful.
posted by brain cloud at 10:00 AM on November 2, 2007

Heh. "Eat your green beans, Quincy Delight!"

Yeah, that was the one I got. The only match that was kind of a gimme, really.
posted by brain cloud at 10:00 AM on November 2, 2007

10%.

I don't think I'm allowed to post another Britney post again now.
posted by Stynxno at 10:07 AM on November 2, 2007

Britney? Are you referring to Britney Frederick Spears? The professional harlot?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 10:10 AM on November 2, 2007

Wait, that site is supposed to make me "feel smart...again!"

1) I already feel smart
2) I didn't get any right, so...

That site actually made me feel dumb!
posted by PhiBetaKappa at 10:12 AM on November 2, 2007

Only got one right.

But let me reiterate something I paid good money on a subscritption to learn:

The entire production and design staff of Mental_Floss must be punished for their crimes, and made an example.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:24 AM on November 2, 2007

Some of these must be family surnames--that's how I came up with "grade".
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 10:31 AM on November 2, 2007

On what basis am I supposed to be able to do the matchups?

HOW SMART ARE YOU

I rolled a pair (one red, one blue) of dice 5 times. Figure out which red value went with which blue value!

Red Blue
1     5
6     2
3     4
2     1
4     6
posted by DU at 10:33 AM on November 2, 2007

My name is Sue! How do you do?
posted by Artw at 10:42 AM on November 2, 2007

I got 50%. Much better than I expected. And my assumption is that some of these are family surnames too. Especially Richard Gere's.
posted by cmgonzalez at 11:26 AM on November 2, 2007

I got 40% purely by trying to guess how Irish they were.
I feel bad for Richard Gere. Shannon, Paige, Regan: those could go either way. Not his.
posted by rmless at 11:58 AM on November 2, 2007

The average number of fixed points in a random permutation of a finite set is 1, independent of the size of the set. So all you people getting 1 right nailed the average (that would be expected for pure guesswork). More than 1, you did better than chance alone would predict!
posted by Wolfdog at 12:44 PM on November 2, 2007

10% --- which oddly comforts me.
posted by RavinDave at 1:56 PM on November 2, 2007

And my assumption is that some of these are family surnames too. Especially Richard Gere's.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere's mother, Doris Anna (née Tiffany), was a homemaker...
posted by Dreama at 2:17 PM on November 2, 2007

Marion Morrison would kick all there slightly-feminised-named asses.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:34 PM on November 2, 2007

I put Tracy for Richard Gere, on the off-chance he was named after a cartoon character. No dice.
posted by Reggie Digest at 5:00 PM on November 2, 2007