Facebook quizzes we need

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Which Kupier Belt object are you?
Which barnacle are you?
Which useless feat from 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons are you?
Which hair on Napoleon's nutsack are you?
Which DailyKos diarist are you?
Which California ballot initiative are you?
Which piece of gravel in my driveway are you?
Which kind of Duraflame log are you?
Which sub-Saharan African nation are you?
Which kind of food poisoning are you?
Which member of Hall & Oates are you?
Which STD are you?
Which kind of bottled water are you?
Which obscure Monty Python sketch are you?
Which Secretary of Housing and Urban Development are you?
Which hominid fossil are you?
Which law of thermodynamics are you?
Which term of Grover Cleveland's presidency are you?
Which button on the Microsoft Word 2007 toolbar are you?
Which episode of Starsky & Hutch are you?
And of course: Which Facebook Quiz are you?
I really think the genre has jumped the shark.

UPDATE: From Roger on Facebook:
I hope quizzes haven't really jumped the shark yet. I'm still waiting with bated breath for the "Which Modron are you" quiz

(Link added.) Secundus all the way, baby!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Nihil novum sub sole. This was once a lj (or occasional true blog) obsession.
2:55 AM, March 19, 2009
Zachary Drake said…
That's "There's nothing new under the sun" for you non-Latin speakers out there (at least I think that's what it is!).
6:46 AM, March 19, 2009
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