Psycho Test

[cnorman18]

I just got this by email, and I'm going to post it WITH the answer. You'll see why.

I've said before that this forum has the smartest people I've ever seen all in one place, but I really, REALLY hope that nobody gets this right.

Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result.

This is not a trick question. It is as it reads.

No one I know has gotten it right, including me.

A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream guy she believed him to be just that! She fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What is her motive in killing her sister?

(Give this some thought before you answer). SCROLL DOWN.



























Answer: She was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again.

If you answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath.

This was a test that a famous American psychologist used to find out if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly.

[I don't know if that's true; this is the email as I received it. --Charles]

If you didn't answer the question correctly, good for you.

If you got the answer correct, please let me know so I can take you off my email list, unless that will tick you off; then I'll just be extra nice to you from now on....

[Geocat]

I was actually asked this by I guy I work with (I got it wrong), He said HE got it right when he was asked it. I dont doubt him!

[the PC apeman]

Well, I didn't come up with the correct answer but it could be just that I'm a particularly dim psychopath.

[Big Les]

Surely this is just another trite email forward? Unless it originated with some sort of professional/institution, I would take it with a considerable pinch of salt. There's no silver bullet way to determine meaningfully whether somebody's a "psychopath" or not.

[Jekyll]

Question: What is her motive in killing her sister?

She spilt her drink?
Answer: She was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again.
Amateur.

[GreedyAlgorithm]

Yay Snopes! (http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sister.asp)
OMG Snopes! (http://xkcd.com/250/)

[cnorman18]

Yay Snopes! (http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sister.asp)
OMG Snopes! (http://xkcd.com/250/)

Thanks for the links. I guess I should have checked first.

But I'm still kinda glad the answer never occurred to me...

[Geocat]

Well well, Thats interesting, Considering my coworker said this is some actual test psychologist's use sometimes, and said he was asked this by his brother in law who works as a criminal psychologist or something like that. heh.

[GodMark2]

Oh, dear... I got it 'right'.

Admittedly, I just got back from the puzzles section (trying to solve the catch phrase), and I did spend several minutes reading and re-reading the question, looking for what possible motive could have been already told to us in the confines of the question, and the 'funeral' was the only thing that seemed to link her and her 'dream man', and then it just followed...

But I already knew I was one sick puppy.

[Apology]

I answered that the dream guy was the sister's husband. Nothing in the question said that the woman and the sister she killed were close or knew anything about each other's lives. You might not meet your sister's husband until a family event like a funeral. As a matter of fact, the killing thing kind of suggests they weren't close to each other at all.

I suppose that this means I'm well adjusted, even though killing your sister in order to steal her husband is a pretty insane idea.

[Apology]

Of course, if she didn't have the dream guy's number, she wouldn't have her sister's number either. This would make killing the sister extremely hard to pull off.

[Tsukasa Buddha]

First I thought that the man was her sister's lover.

Then I realized the truth. The man was her sister after her sex change!

So what's my psychological profile?

[Hokulele]

I guessed the same thing as Tsukasa Buddha. At least I have company in my strangeness.

[PBTree]

Surely this is just another trite email forward? Unless it originated with some sort of professional/institution, I would take it with a considerable pinch of salt. There's no silver bullet way to determine meaningfully whether somebody's a "psychopath" or not.

Blood on the shirt, knife in hand, body in the trunk ???? :)

[Foolmewunz]

I answered "To Impress Jody Foster".... but that made no sense. I knew (as you always know) from the "this comes from a professional" nonsense that it was just a "One Minute Mystery", and didn't do the link to the setting - a funeral...

I figured it had something to do with the fact that the victim (sister) was hitherto not mentioned in the tale. At least I'm not as sick ;) as Hokulele and Tsukasa Buddha - I drew a blank.... (and besides, I'm impatient and scrolled down pretty early to see the answer).

[Roboramma]

First I thought that the man was her sister's lover.

Then I realized the truth. The man was her sister after her sex change!

So what's my psychological profile?

I made the same conclusions! So with you Hokulele at least I know I'm in good company - crazy but cool. Sweet.

I also thought that maybe the whole story was a red herring and she killed her sister because she had terminal cancer and she wanted to be euthanized.

[Talby]

I thought about it for a second and answered it correctly. Rats, I'm a psychopath. Either that or I have an appreciation for black humor.

Though, I do think that the question kind of leads you to that conclusion, and it's implied that the obvious answer (i.e. the sister had an affair with the man, or such) isn't the correct one.

[Big Les]

Blood on the shirt, knife in hand, body in the trunk ???? :)

You knew what I meant ;) I can't believe I didn't hit Snopes for this "psycho test" one, but it didn't certainly didn't pass my sniff test. Textbook junk email "meme" of the sort you used to get passed around via photocopier or hit with by your colleagues at the pub. For example, an old boss of mine thought he was clever by wheeling out this one:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/dalai.asp

Ironically enough he also backed me when I "replied to all" with a Snopes link re a particularly misogynistic urban legend email sent to all staff by a colleague.

[DouglasL]

I got it right. For me it was the only logical answer based within the confines of the question. So I am a logical psycho.

[politas]

Hey, it's not like I came up with killing the sister to solve the problem of the mystery man. The scenario stated it! All this means is that I can understand psychos, not that I am one.

[Big Les]

It only means you fell into the hilarious logical trap cunningly set by whichever 13-year-old schoolchild or bored office-worker dreamed it up. It must be quite the thrill to hear or read that something you created is still doing the rounds and affecting people 15 years or more later.

[becomingagodo]

All this means is that I can understand psychos, not that I am one.
So you can understand why people would go out and murder defenseless people, or even worse kill lots of children?

If you got the anwser to the question right, it means nothing. Firstly it is a lie i.e. it was not a psychological test, it not even clear that a psycho would get the correct anwser. So without testing this on psychos we wouldn't know if they instantly gave the correct anwser. Secondly, you can't pin down a complex human behaviour to a simple question, if you got the anwser right it means nothing.

[grayman]

First I thought that the man was her sister's lover.

Then I realized the truth. The man was her sister after her sex change!

So what's my psychological profile?

I guessed the same thing as Tsukasa Buddha. At least I have company in my strangeness.

I made the same conclusions! So with you Hokulele at least I know I'm in good company - crazy but cool. Sweet.

I also thought that maybe the whole story was a red herring and she killed her sister because she had terminal cancer and she wanted to be euthanized.

I thought the same.

Perhaps we can form a support group? :stone028:

[skeptifem]

the test they used on 'most evil' was not at all like the ops test.....

the way their test worked was that a series of events were illustrated on a few cards, and the person being examined was supposed to arrange them in order. (the example deck was a kid playing w/matches on the first card, a fire starting on accident on the next, then the fire department coming, the fire being put out etc). According the the psychologist on that show psychopathic people have a much harder time understanding cause and effect than most people.

[Fnord]

According to the test, I'm a psychopath.

According to Snopes, I'm not.

I'd better go ask mother... :hypnotize

[supercorgi]

Oh dear, I guess I must be a psychopath. I'll have to tell my shrink next time I see him. He'll be upset that his diagnosis of my problem is all wrong. Poor guy - he may turn in his diploma.

Really, I can't imagine anyone not getting the answer. The guy showed up to her mother's funeral probably because he was some sort of friend to the family or at least had a connection with the mother. The woman had no way to contact the man and didn't even know who he was; therefore, she had to find a way to meet him again. It was reasonable (if twisted) to assume he'd show up to the funeral of another member of the immediate family.

[Piscivore]

I was thinking the guy was her long lost father she had never met, she took a quick and dirty tumble with him in the cloakroom from which he quickly disappeared after, and then she took that "morning after" pill when she found out who he had been later from her aunt or something.

[alfaniner]

I think the thread title gives a clue to the intent of the puzzle, and may have influenced some trains of thought.

[Roboramma]

I was thinking the guy was her long lost father she had never met, she took a quick and dirty tumble with him in the cloakroom from which he quickly disappeared after, and then she took that "morning after" pill when she found out who he had been later from her aunt or something. Best answer so far!

[grayman]

My favorite psychology test story from Emo Phillips:

And he gives me a chocolate Easter bunny. And this shows how tricky those guys are. I eat the chocolate and I think, wait a second... this isn't around Easter. "Was this a test?" He said, "Yes." "And what does it mean?" He said, "Well, had you eaten the ears first you would have been normal; had you eaten the feet first you would have had an inferiority complex; had you eaten the tail first you would have had latent homosexual tendencies; and had you eaten the breasts first you would have had a latent oedipal complex." I said, "Well, go on. What does it mean when you bite out the eyes and scream, 'Stop staring at me!'?'" He says, "It shows you've a tendency towards self-destruction." I said, "What do you recommend?" He says, "Go for it!"

[JonnyFive]

I figured it was for the insurance money. After all, she already killed off her mother to collect on her, so the sister was the next logical choice. The man in the story is a red herring - he has nothing to do with anything.

What do I win?

What do you mean it doesn't say she killed her mother? I'm sure the giant talking hampster sitting on my frontal cortex left said it's in there somewhere.

[Foster Zygote]

According to the test, I'm a psychopath.

According to Snopes, I'm not.

I'd better go ask mother... :hypnotize

Mother says you're fine.

[Piscivore]

I think the thread title gives a clue to the intent of the puzzle, and may have influenced some trains of thought.

I promise I was sincere, and if you are foolish, curious, and strong-stomached enough I can walk you through my train of thought.

All standard disclaimers apply.

[Foolmewunz]

So you can understand why people would go out and murder defenseless people, or even worse kill lots of children?

If you got the anwser to the question right, it means nothing. Firstly it is a lie i.e. it was not a psychological test, it not even clear that a psycho would get the correct anwser. So without testing this on psychos we wouldn't know if they instantly gave the correct anwser. Secondly, you can't pin down a complex human behaviour to a simple question, if you got the anwser right it means nothing.

Whoa! Glad you cleared that up for us. We were all taking it far too seriously, as one can tell from the responses. Several of us were heading off to sign up for therapy (and several others were heading off with a straight razor to ask their analyst(s) why they hadn't been advised of this).


:spjimlad::spjimlad::spjimlad:

[JonnyFive]

Whoa! Glad you cleared that up for us. We were all taking it far too seriously, as one can tell from the responses. Several of us were heading off to sign up for therapy (and several others were heading off with a straight razor to ask their analyst(s) why they hadn't been advised of this).

I'm quite certain I was about to kill again when BAG spoke up.

ETA: Why is this in R&P, anyway?

[becomingagodo]

ETA: Why is this in R&P, anyway?
You attack me for stating the obvious. However, your doing it now.

No more coffee for you, also that show was rubbish. Peak something??

[Piscivore]

You attack me for stating the obvious.
No, they are ridiculing you for stating the obvious. And for being ignorant that it was obvious. As I am making fun of you now for being ignorant of the fact you were being ridiculed.

How does that make you feel?

[becomingagodo]

And for being ignorant that it was obvious.
If it was obvious why didn't everyone stop the conversation. I was trying to kill this thread, it is painful reading through people saying "I can understand a killers mind". They say ignorance is bliss, however it was painful reading through the thread.

I am proberly the least ignorant in this forum, and I am the least blissful.

[becomingagodo]

Also, how much can you read the same I'm a psycho joke? once is okay, however five posts of I thought I was normal, but I'm a psycho is not funny.

[JonnyFive]

You attack me for stating the obvious. However, your doing it now.

Actually, Foolmewunz was making fun of you for stating the obvious.

I was just letting everyone know that you stopped me from killing again.

Killing my back with poor posture, that is. I had to sit up straight to type my response.

No more coffee for you, also that show was rubbish. Peak something??

It was called "Peak of Deception" and aired on Fox from 1995 - 1996.

The character in my avatar is Dan Coppola, a detective with the NYPD that is sent to a small town in upstate New York to investigate a series of strange murders.

Everything I say is a lie, becomingagodo.

[Hokulele]

I promise I was sincere, and if you are foolish, curious, and strong-stomached enough I can walk you through my train of thought.

All standard disclaimers apply.


Please, walk me through your train of thought. I need more psycho on a Wednesday.

(Plus, it will piss BAG off, which is a good thing.)

[Piscivore]

If it was obvious why didn't everyone stop the conversation.
Because we were having fun with it. You didn't grasp that. That is your ignorance.

I was trying to kill this thread, it is painful reading through people saying "I can understand a killers mind".
So don't read it. Why do you have to crap on everyone else's fun?

And by the bye, all joking aside, I can understand a killer's mind. So can many others. Do you not think this is a valuable thing to know if one wishes to counter them? I have a thirteen year old daughter and an eleven year old son. I want to know what the people who want to hurt them are looking for in a victim, where, when and how they are going to try to attack, and why they want to hurt children in the first place. Isn't this more intelligent, if less "blissful", than trying to pretend that life is sunshine and butterflies and every one loves my kids?

They say ignorance is bliss, however it was painful reading through the thread.
Q.E.D.

I am proberly the least ignorant in this forum, and I am the least blissful.
My aunt fanny's fanny. Unless you are finally trying to make a joke. Were you finally trying to make a joke? Or are you content to just be one?

[JonnyFive]

If it was obvious why didn't everyone stop the conversation. I was trying to kill this thread, it is painful reading through people saying "I can understand a killers mind". They say ignorance is bliss, however it was painful reading through the thread.

I am proberly the least ignorant in this forum, and I am the least blissful.

No, you're completely unaware of what a psychopath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopath) is if you honestly believe this. The poster you quoted said "psychopath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopath)," not killer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderer). If you honestly believe that psychopath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopath)=killer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderer), then you are ignorant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorant) as to the meaning of one or both of those words.

ETA: Also, you conflate "understand" with "I am a potential killer myself" or something. I don't know why you do this.

[becomingagodo]

If you honestly believe that psychopath=killer, then you are ignorant as to the meaning of one or both of those words.
I thought we were using the terms vaguely in this thread, as in the question it implies psycho equals killer, well unless you change the title of the thread. So I was just using them vaguely.

Because we were having fun with it. You didn't grasp that. That is your ignorance.
It not funny, maybe I can't understand some humour.

Isn't this more intelligent, if less "blissful", than trying to pretend that life is sunshine and butterflies and every one loves my kids?

That is the same reasoning I used to continue reading the thread, even though it was painfully unfunny.

Everybody thinks their a comedian.

[Hokulele]

It not funny, maybe I can't understand some humour.


I would suggest that the word "some" is unnecessary in your statement. I would also suggest that the word "is" is necessary.

[JonnyFive]

I would suggest that the word "some" is unnecessary in your statement. I would also suggest that the word "is" is necessary.

But don't you understand that grammar adds nothing, Hokulele! ;)

[Piscivore]

Please, walk me through your train of thought. I need more psycho on a Wednesday.

(Plus, it will piss BAG off, which is a good thing.)


The first thing I realised when I read this is that it was a trick question of some kind, and I surmised that the "killing the sister" bit is probably where the equivocation would be. Given my own history (for those that do not know, our third child was stillborn) and that the anti-abortion people use "murder" to describe the practice, I figured the most likely way for someone to twist "killing" a relative" would be thusly.

Her mother already being deceased, the only avenue to produce a sister to kill in this way would be the father. the possibility existed that the father had an affair or otherwised created a new child with another woman, but the possibility that the woman in the puzzle should know about a new sister created this way in order to do something about it within "a few days" would be very slim. The only way to "kill" the sister would be unwittingly, and the most likely way to unwittingly abort a pregnancy in that time frame is the RU 486 pill.

Given that there was absolutely no explicit information given about the father at all, there was not reason to make the leap to the woman giving the unmentioned father's unmentioned mistress the pill. However, the statement that the woman "fell in love" with an unknown man at the party, and that weddings are frequently the scene of impulsive hookups, gives motive and plausibility for the woman to take the pill herself. An incestuous relationship with her father is the only way for the woman to have aborted her own sister.

The possibility the father was estranged, and a funeral for the mother being a likely reason for an unlikely reappearance by an estranged father are both plausible. Further, there are a number of urban legends on Snopes describing just exactly incestuous liasons of this nature. These urban legends usually feature later discovery of the misdeed, and such discovery would further motivate the woman to take the pill, so I included that.

Just goes to show what kind of damage a little unstated premise can do. :)

[JonnyFive]

Just goes to show what kind of damage a little unstated premise can do. :)

I can't argue with your logic, and hereby submit that you win the first "tears of becomingagodo" award for exceptional psychopathy in the field of psychopathy.

[Hokulele]

You know Pisci, I find your scenario to be way more plausible than the answer cnorman gave. I guess I am psychopathic, but not a killer. :)

[Piscivore]

You know Pisci, I find your scenario to be way more plausible than the answer cnorman gave. I guess I am psychopathic, but not a killer. :)

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane." :)

[Marquis de Carabas]

So what does it mean if one's answer was ultimately, physics? Um, a friend wants to know.

[JonnyFive]

So what does it mean if one's answer was ultimately, physics? Um, a friend wants to know.

I was wondering the same thing, and I think the answer is that you're a danger to society and should be immediately locked up for the good of the children and goats.

Also, it means you're not a psycho, so at least there's that.

[Foster Zygote]

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane." :)

Now I'm confused. Which movie are we in?

[Jeff Corey]

Monty Python's "Undertaker Sketch", it means he wants to eat his mother. Not live, but with a bit of brocolli.

[Piscivore]

Now I'm confused. Which movie are we in?

The little known first version of "Psycho" starring Phil Silvers and Shelley Winters.

It tested a little too well.

[Gregory]

The first thing I realised when I read this is that it was a trick question of some kind, and I surmised that the "killing the sister" bit is probably where the equivocation would be. Given my own history (for those that do not know, our third child was stillborn) and that the anti-abortion people use "murder" to describe the practice, I figured the most likely way for someone to twist "killing" a relative" would be thusly.

Her mother already being deceased, the only avenue to produce a sister to kill in this way would be the father. the possibility existed that the father had an affair or otherwised created a new child with another woman, but the possibility that the woman in the puzzle should know about a new sister created this way in order to do something about it within "a few days" would be very slim. The only way to "kill" the sister would be unwittingly, and the most likely way to unwittingly abort a pregnancy in that time frame is the RU 486 pill.

Given that there was absolutely no explicit information given about the father at all, there was not reason to make the leap to the woman giving the unmentioned father's unmentioned mistress the pill. However, the statement that the woman "fell in love" with an unknown man at the party, and that weddings are frequently the scene of impulsive hookups, gives motive and plausibility for the woman to take the pill herself. An incestuous relationship with her father is the only way for the woman to have aborted her own sister.

The possibility the father was estranged, and a funeral for the mother being a likely reason for an unlikely reappearance by an estranged father are both plausible. Further, there are a number of urban legends on Snopes describing just exactly incestuous liasons of this nature. These urban legends usually feature later discovery of the misdeed, and such discovery would further motivate the woman to take the pill, so I included that.

Just goes to show what kind of damage a little unstated premise can do. :)

See, I'd just assumed that she'd found out her sister was banging the guy and wanted to free him up. I wonder if that makes me less psychopathic than you, or just less imaginitive.

[Foolmewunz]

Also, how much can you read the same I'm a psycho joke? once is okay, however five posts of I thought I was normal, but I'm a psycho is not funny.

Oh, I don't know? How many ways can you reframe the same cantankerous post and pretend it's new?

If you have no sense of humor and cannot see that people are just joshin' and jokin', then traipse off elsewhere and save some other misguided souls, please.

It's a fake test, based on a false premise, and being promulgated by urban legend emails. What's not to poke fun at?

Sheeeesh!


ETA: Ooops! I hadn't seen that we were twenty posts further along and that several had more than adequately covered the above....

[bruto]

So you can understand why people would go out and murder defenseless people, or even worse kill lots of children?

If you got the anwser to the question right, it means nothing. Firstly it is a lie i.e. it was not a psychological test, it not even clear that a psycho would get the correct anwser. So without testing this on psychos we wouldn't know if they instantly gave the correct anwser. Secondly, you can't pin down a complex human behaviour to a simple question, if you got the anwser right it means nothing.

You can add a third, which is that it's been around long enough that getting it right might just mean you've seen it before.

[autumn1971]

Why not kill your relatives? You skeptics are very close-minded about the random killing of loved ones.
People actually don't taste like chicken.

But they are very tasty in their own way.

[Foster Zygote]

Why not kill your relatives? You skeptics are very close-minded about the random killing of loved ones.
People actually don't taste like chicken.

But they are very tasty in their own way.

You can bump off every member of your family
And anybody else you find a bore

[Piscivore]

See, I'd just assumed that she'd found out her sister was banging the guy and wanted to free him up. I wonder if that makes me less psychopathic than you, or just less imaginitive.

I think it means you've seen too much "Murder, She Wrote".

That's unfortunate, but not really deranged as such.

[bruto]

Why not kill your relatives? You skeptics are very close-minded about the random killing of loved ones.
People actually don't taste like chicken.

But they are very tasty in their own way.

I guess it depends on which books you read. I was under the impression that 'long pig" is actually not one of the choicer meats, and has a kind of soapy and rancid flavor. Of course I don't remember where I got that idea; probably from some iffy source like The Coral Island, but I don't know how many reliable sources there really are.

[JonnyFive]

What does it mean if I think she killed her sister because the sister was a shape-shifting alien parasite that had devoured her real sister's brains and was using her body as a kind of meat husk to hide in while it reproduced using the guy she met at the funeral to lay eggs in eventually releasing a plague of parasitic, brain-eating aliens onto the world?

Also, she killed the guy too, but there was this awesome twist ending where she was a meat husk too and everyone dies!

I think it means I've been watching too much TV, but I'd like to be sure.

[Piscivore]

What does it mean if I think she killed her sister because the sister was a shape-shifting alien parasite that had devoured her real sister's brains and was using her body as a kind of meat husk to hide in while it reproduced using the guy she met at the funeral to lay eggs in eventually releasing a plague of parasitic, brain-eating aliens onto the world?

Also, she killed the guy too, but there was this awesome twist ending where she was a meat husk too and everyone dies!

I think it means I've been watching too much TV, but I'd like to be sure.

Actually, I think it works better if the "guy" were the shapeshifting alien parasite and he implanted the sister. Otherwise, this is a good answer.

[JonnyFive]

Actually, I think it works better if the "guy" were the shapeshifting alien parasite and he implanted the sister. Otherwise, this is a good answer.

Okay, but am I a psycho or not?

[Foolmewunz]

Okay, but am I a psycho or not?

Hmmm?
Let's see.
Gothamite, marries/dates outside of his race, knows the meaning of abrogate, hates CTists, loves coffee....

You sound perfectly average to me! (statistical sampling of 2)

Wait.... but.... If you're really a psycho, then that'd make me.....?

(Do you have a wood-chipper, I could borrow? Mother says wood-chippers are a good thing to have. You never know when you might want to chip someonething up late at night.)

[Piscivore]

(Do you have a wood-chipper, I could borrow? Mother says wood-chippers are a good thing to have. You never know when you might want to chip someonething up late at night.)

Did "Fargo" teach you nothing? Woodchippers are messy. And noisy.

An old abandoned dry well full of corpse eating beetles, now that's what you want. Or a supply of 55 gallon drums and a really large desert nearby.

Okay, but am I a psycho or not?

No, it sounds more like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

[JonnyFive]

Hmmm?
Let's see.

Gothamite, marries/dates outside of his race, knows the meaning of abrogate, hates CTists, loves coffee....

You sound perfectly average to me! (statistical sampling of 2)

Well, that's a relief.

Wait.... but.... If you're really a psycho, then that'd make me.....?

(Do you have a wood-chipper, I could borrow? Mother says wood-chippers are a good thing to have. You never know when you might want to chip someonething up late at night.)

Sorry, my apartment really isn't big enough to warrant having a wood chipper around, but the sanitation workers around here deal with a lot of nondescript plastic bags and don't ask many questions.

No, it sounds more like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

Honestly, I'm not sure whether to be relieved or terrified. :)

[catbasket]

I had no idea what the correct answer was ... and I really, really wanted to be a psycho (well, everyone should have a hobby).

[JonnyFive]

I had no idea what the correct answer was ... and I really, really wanted to be a psycho (well, everyone should have a hobby).

Don't give up on your dreams! The Psycho Advancement College of Maryland, Arkansas, and Nevada (PAC MAN) can help! You will train under world renowned psychos in fields such as emotional detachment, disassociative disorder, empathy removal, stabbing techniques, and annoying becomingagodo with psycho jokes.

The Psycho Advancement College prides itself on small class sizes, dedicated staff (you might even say they are obsessed with helping the students), and sound-proof rooms for various purposes.

Financial assistance is available to those who qualify.

[Piscivore]

Financial assistance is available to those who qualify.

There is a special scholarship if you show up to your admissions interview dressed as your mother, for starters.

[Hokulele]

There is a special scholarship if you show up to your admissions interview dressed as your mother, for starters.


How about if you show up dressed as the deceased mother in the OP?

[Piscivore]

How about if you show up dressed as the deceased mother in the OP?

That's technically just cosplay, and while cosplay is pretty disturbing it does not in itself cross the threshold. It might tip the scales to get an applicant in for a borderline case though, so I wouldn't dismiss the idea completely.

[schlitt]

I am proberly the least ignorant in this forum, and I am the least blissful.

Wow. This comment is really quite something.

[Piscivore]

Wow. This comment is really quite something.

"Blissful", perhaps? :D

[schlitt]

;)"Blissful", perhaps? :D

[Fredrik]

A friend asked me this when we had dinner in a restaurant about a year ago. It was immediately obvious to me what the answer was. I guess I must be a psychopath. :rolleyes:

I suggest we call this a "stupidity test" instead. If you don't find the correct answer in less than 20 seconds, you're stupid. :wink:

Hey, I just thought of another question and answer with exactly the same possible interpretations:

What's the best TV show ever? Dexter. If you said anything else, you're stupid.

[mayday]

I got this wrong, my husband figured it out.

I knew he was evil.

[Babylon Sister]

JonnyFive: psychopath=killer

qu'est-ce que c'est?

(Someone had to do it...)

[Hokulele]

qu'est-ce que c'est?

(Someone had to do it...)


Fa fa fa fa fa. Fa fa fa fa fa.

[JonnyFive]

qu'est-ce que c'est?

(Someone had to do it...)

Hey, you're taking my words out of their original context!

I'll axe you good for that, I will! ;)