Look Smart Trivia: Presidential Facial Hair
7It took the USA four score and four years to elect its first fuzzfaced president - birthday boy Abraham Lincoln - and we haven’t had one in almost a century now. But in between, the White House hosted such a hirsute parade of extravagantly bewhiskered dudes, it looked like a craft distillery. Can you name these five Chief Executives solely by their mug-thatch? If you’re the first one to do so in a comment below, you’ll score a $5 Meh coupon (unlike a real fiver, Lincoln portrait not included). Insert signoff catchphrase here!
Yesterday’s weird symphony of Unusual Instruments was music to the ears of @ruouttaurmind, who scored (get it?) a $5 Meh coupon:
- Melodica
- Subcontrabass Flute
- Theremin
- Mizwad
- Serpent
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5.Chester Arthur
And if I am ineligible… never mind.
@ruouttaurmind you literally just won the last one. Every 7 days, bruh.
@medz There are no rules posted in this topic, so I added the disclaimer. I’m happy to be DQd if that’s the rule.
@medz @ruouttaurmind Quote from the January 8:
@ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 Also, the coupon is LOOKSMART
@medz @ruouttaurmind We were discussing yesterday that maybe people who aren’t allowed to win shouldn’t post real answers, at least at first? Maybe help others out instead? Not my call of course.
@medz @sammydog01 Ya, now I’ve gone and mucked it all up. Bollocks.
I did’t search through all the Look Smart topics, just the last couple weeks, looking for rules. Didn’t find any, so I posted my answers.
My most humble apologies to all participants, and especially to @JasonTune for not coloring within the lines.
@ruouttaurmind You didn’t scour the threads for obscure rules every day for over a month? What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you have a life or something? (If you do can I borrow it?)
@sammydog01 No life, just a short attention span. You are welcome to borrow that.
@medz @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 @jasontoon
While we’re on the topic of winning multiple times… does our coupon code automatically increase in value in these situations? I’ve won in three separate weeks… but haven’t used the code yet… so do I have a $15 coupon? Or have I simply lost out on $10 and am left with only the $5 from my most recent win?
@JasonToon @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 @steelopus If anything, I would suspect it would be $5 coupon good for multiple uses. In other words, you might have three $5 coupons that can’t be combined on a single order.
@medz
That’s a good point. There goes my plan to save up 30 of these suckers and order approximately 500lbs of candy corn next October.
1.William “Handlebar” Taft
2.Benjamin “Santa Claus” Harrison
3.Theodore “Drooplip” Roosevelt
4.Ulysses “S” Grant
5.Chester “Muttonchop” Arthur
Fun flipping through faces… and if ruouttaurmind is out of contention… maybe I am not ineligible?
awesome…
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
It’s happening. mediocrebot is losing it.
@ruouttaurmind Oh geez… I should not have antagonized it with my last word! I will avoid saying awesome from now on…
dang… said it again… oops.
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
@Shawn I think mediocrebot is broken.
Not awesome!
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
@RiotDemon I think @racoon81 might have created awesum posts to elicit a response from mediocrebot, then deleted the post?
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
@RiotDemon Yup, theory proven. Though I cannot be sure who was responsible.
@ruouttaurmind I wondered that myself.
@RiotDemon @ruouttaurmind wasn’t me, didn’t know why it was worse than usual!
@medz “@JasonToon 2020!”
@medz ahahaha… DAYUM! You found screencaps that suit each one! Anybody who spends that much time in close examination of my face deserves a medal. (There will be no medal.)
@JasonToon a labor of love
I don’t understand the hate for bearded presidents nowadays.
Maybe one day we will have a purple haired president.
@Ignorant needs more mole.
William Howard Taft
Benjamin Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Chester A. Arthur
We need to bring back the beard. For everyone. And powdered wigs.