An Addictive New Waste of Time!
Has everybody already discovered the Askinator game? The Wolf household can’t stop playing it. Think of any character, real or fictive, and the Askinator Genie will guess the answer. So far, it has correctly guessed Ignatious P. Reilly, the Gimp from Pulp Fiction, god, Madame Bovary, Borat, Marianne Faithfull, my mother-in-law and our dog.
Tags: god, internet addiction, Pulp Fiction
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:57 am
My choice was Edward Gorey. It came up with Gary Gygax and then Robert Jordan. I think it was just throwing anyone with a beard my way
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:21 am
i stumped it with Lucy Honeychurch. i guess the ‘nator hasn’t read em forster?
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:22 am
It totally came up with Karl Lagerfeld. Amazing.
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:26 am
. . . but then I stumped it with Alek Wek.
January 3rd, 2010 at 8:26 am
Love it, Sister! I thought of Keith Richards and it guessed it correctly. Gotta go play some more. =)
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:18 am
It got my cat right, my son right, but when I thought of Albert Einstein it guessed Walt Disney?
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:59 am
It got Coco Chanel rather quickly, but instead of Josephine Baker it gave me Tina Turner. At a certain point I could tell it thought I was thinking of Billie Holiday, asking about drugs, but then it led itself astray with sexy mini skirts. Tina’s skirts ‘being sexy’ is VERY subjective.
Aja…I’ve just been looking at Karl Lagerfeld’s diet book, its bloody hilarious!
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:05 am
I played 5 times. It got Aristotle and Batman, and I stumped it with John Henry steel drivn’ man, comic artist Darwyn Cooke, and Marc Bolan from T-Rex.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
I decided to put the Akinators skills to a more positive use and help the police find this man…
http://www.asylum.com/2009/12/22/police-hunt-bizarre-supermarket-butt-sniffing-shopper/
It turns out the culprit is none other than antiques expert David Dickinson. Rank old pervert!
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:15 am
I thought of Georgia O’Keefe, it guessed Hypatia of Alexandria, Diane Arbus, and then the wife of that Billie Joe guy from green day? Something Armstrong. I wouldn’t think that one would have been hard?
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:18 am
@Suspended: good call! get that guy off the streets! yuck.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:30 am
Took him a couple of tries, but he got Cary Grant. =D
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:02 am
I stumped it with Daphne Guinness. It guessed Anna Wintour instead.
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:28 am
It got Sherlock Holmes and Ghengis Khan. I was freaked out and called Mr P to come and play. He said, “Does it have to be someone famous or can it be one of my friends?”
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:05 pm
It didn’t get Bix Beiderbecke or Hattie McDaniel. But it did get Leonard Bernstein, Holden Caulfield, David Mitchell, Sam Rockwell and Satan. All of whom I would love to have over for one of those “if you could invite anybody, living or dead” dinner parties. And Sister Wolf, you come, too.
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
jeez it even guessed peter murphy! i am surprised. it also got stephen king. how does it doooitt?
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:53 pm
I could not have asked for a better incorrect answer. Of whom was I thinking? Our favorite dingbat, wingnut, did not win VP, quitter Guvner, Sarah Palin. The incorrect guess: Monica Lewinski!!! Now that is some crazy shit!
January 3rd, 2010 at 8:50 pm
This is good stuff. It didn’t know Michael Somare (prime minister of Papua New Guinea) but knows about Sammy Davis Jr.
Impressive.
Something else to pass the time instead of Free Rice.
Thanks Sister W.
January 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
It got Max Azria for me! Crazy!