Silly Meme Question thing again.

[skjaldmeyjar.livejournal.com]

We are all Role Playing GEEKS. *proudly*

Therefore, what's the oddest thing you've had to research, for your character?

I ask, because I was just looking up Tudor styles. And I had to once find out when waffles were invented. So... um, yes. What all have you looked up?

Please to be replying here, and all that. <3!

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[not_that_spike]

The weight of a fully-loaded IMI Jericho 941 9mm semi-automatic.

[shipscook.livejournal.com]

Textures and flavors of Japanese apples, as well as what some are called and where they grow.

(For a couple of seconds of throwaway writing. ... They're tasty, though!)

[not-a-surgeon.livejournal.com]

I've had to clothes shop for a prudish AI. Research old computer hardware. Popular early 80s songs. The first year The Price Is Right ran.

And did you know that the 1982 Firebird was the first run of the third generation F-body?

... *headdesk*

Well, at least thanks to playing Bonnie, I'm learning to fix my own car. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than going to a shop.

[lord-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

Doors. Oh, yes. Doors. All kinds of doors. So that I might, then, go and spew this knowledge via a rather crazy little bird at anyone who dared ask anything of her. Doors.

Um. And I can speak nearly fluant Paravian.

[henry-jones-jr.livejournal.com]

The origins of waffles and the texture of edible cactus. Both for threads with Meg... of course.

[b-hawkins.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the oddest was engravings and wood-cuts by Albrecht Durer. That or Gnostic Gospels.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

The rarest coffee in the world: Indonesian kopi luwak, which has gone through the digestive processes of a small animal called a civet (Indonesian name: luwak).

[stevie-star.livejournal.com]

Well, for PeeJee I learned the S*P archives backwards and forwards. And I looked up generalized information on the climate and dialect of Chinese most widely spoken in Singapore (Mandarin, by the way).

For Griffin, I need a semi-solid knowledge of life in Victorian London, especially academic life. I've researched the mindset of rapists and that of nudists.

For Michael... Honestly, for the time period I've been relying on my own memories of the early 80s. Well, I guess staying up overnight to watch and tape two and a half seasons of Knight Rider counts as research, right? I mean, five am to one pm, twenty-five tapes...

For Stevie, I got lucky. She requires little research, except into the period.

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

How to give a Father of the Bride speech at weddings. I'm female, and so will never have to do this for real! I was in the library and people were looking at me funny...

[golden-age-sand.livejournal.com]

- Songs on the late 1938 Hit Parade.
- Casual wear of the late 1930s.
- And just what make and model of top break revolver could possibly be customized into a functioning sleeping gas gun. All of my research led me to a British pistol, the Webley & Scott No. 1 Mark VI from 1927. And if you don't think you've seen it, you have. It's the same firearm (http://www.indygear.com/gear/webley.htm) that our boy Indy used in Last Crusade.

[theprettiestone.livejournal.com]

The symptoms and treatment of schizotypal personality disorder.
The mindset of stalkers, and of serial killers.
Sword weights and balances, and training drills.

[gone_byebye]

The electrochemical processes behind the functioning of a calculator battery.
The inner workings of a solar power cell.
The electrical wiring and control of an LCD unit.
The precise scientific definition of an electrical field, and how to demonstrate one.
The process by which photonic crystals are made and examples of same in nature.
The engine and suspension specs on a 1959 Cadillac Miller/Meteor rear-loader hearse.

Gods, I'm sure there's more but I can't for the life of me remember the specifics right now... I'll tell you this much. I didn't look up any of the actual Ghostbusting tech. I just pulled that out of my ass.

[indy-go.livejournal.com]

Josie and I once spent an afternoon trolling around home furnishing sites, trying to get the feel and style of Bernard and Tonks' new flat.

And yes, I have the WebMD week-by-week pregnancy calendar bookmarked. Why do you ask? XD

[gramarye1971]

Weimar-era German banknotes is the first thing that comes to mind. And a whole slew of Grandmaster-level chess games. ^_^

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

How to give birth in a crisis situation

More about weddings than I ever need to know(apparently, some consider it vital that you have a matching guest book, pen holder, flower girl basket, ring bearer's pillow and so forth. Also, there are some ugly ugly dresses out there)

Meanings of baby names

etymology of 'werewolf'.

The proper way to make a Cuban sandwich.

Valentine's day gift ideas.

[bloodyrockgod]

The lyrics to "It's Oh So Quiet" by Bjork, baby development stages, various Irish Gaelic terms of endearment, names of nightclubs in Manchester, prayers for new babies, the effects of heroin withdrawl, marriage laws for Louisiana, and the birthdate of Eric Satie.

[bloodyrockgod]

And very bendy yoga positions! I knew I forgot something very cracky.

[empath-wiggin.livejournal.com]

~Composition and construction of Jedi robes
~Miscarriage/Stillbirth
~Jedi wedding traditions
~Intricacies of the life of Anakin Skywalker
~How to spell Midichlorian
~Machiavellian politics
~Philotic theory

I'm sure there's more I'm not thinking of.

[tinyceratops.livejournal.com]

Um, today I went to check the date for the origin of angiosperms.

Although technically I should already have known that.

Also, the height of the Chrysler Building and other NY landmarks as a basis for Haddyn.

[faithful-slayer.livejournal.com]

Gosh.

Well, for Faith, lots and lots of weapons sites, and how much her motorcycle weighs.

Nothing for Doyle, Kingsley or Joyce, as yet.

Daniel...Daniel's my weird boy. Egyptian terms of endearment.

[petriedino.livejournal.com]

Finally gave up on keeping the sekrit, did you, Val? *grins*

[prydeful]

...I play Delirium, a mutant who walks through walls, happens to be a science geek and speaks several languages, some of which are made up, a Beaver Baby, and a girl from 1949 England who knows a WALKING TALKING ENGLISH SPEAKING JESUS-LION.

I think that says it all.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rootofallevil_/]

I looked up Karl Rove's Birthday.

Which is Christmas Day....

I find that ironic and creepy.

[wizard_dresden]

Harry and Bob: I keep having to spin back through the books to gather things like 'what goes into a potion' and varied Chicago-y things (some of which I can grab online too)


VH - (well, not for milli, but for elsewhere) - The year Peter Allen passed to make sure it was possible for AU VH to have seen him (this was for seriously cracked plot); plus he's from the late 19th century - I have to keep checking on weird things like telephones and such, to see WHEN specifically they were introduced to make sure he 'might' know about them - since he talks to ppl from about 100 years in his future.


MacGyver - I'm lazy; haven't actually looked stuff up for him... yet

Connor - usually I have to check his timeline (thank GOD for the fan who put one up) to see exactly WHERE he was at any given time to determine if he could actually have seen things happen; also, research when things were 'invented' or 'intro'd' to be sure he doesn't say he knew about them before he actually did.

Dawn - she's not that hard; that's mostly BtVS research

Martouf - research on him is more re-watching the episodes to keep his speech patterns right.

[minkhollow]

Not really so much with the research, but I keep asking people in crackchat to check my pop culture references. Probably the weirdest one so far is when the Y2K bug became really big news.
Hey, when you have a character from 1997 and can't quite remember what life was like before all this stuff... XD (In my defense, I was still in grade school at the time.)

[minkhollow]

Oh, and then stuff for Jane. Which isn't so much research as RPing with my copy of The Daria Diaries open to the map of Lawndale.
Or, in a truly crack-inspired pursuit, having Ji tell me over IM what Jane should be telling Thom, in an attempt to do the whole drawing-lessons thing. Mom's the artist of the family, not me. XD

[highking.livejournal.com]

The history of men's underwear.

I feel like that pretty much says it all.

[awesome_lilly]

Hee. That says your character's met Lilly, at least. ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_righthandman_/]

Weirdest thing I've ever had to research? Oh, man, it varies from character to character.

Baby development, I think. I had to go to some parenting website because I was trying to figure out what kinds of caretaking duties Chase would have been performing for Angela circa Season 3, and how they'd change if she showed up in the bar suddenly several months older.

theravenboy

[theravenboy]

Methodist prayer meetings in rural Wales.

[balletrat]

I suppose my personal most random would be the cafes where Degas ate lunch . . .

[mogget_cat]

The numerous bookmarks from extensive researching at Poem Hunter and the number of MP3s of obscure classical music that I've downloaded say a lot.

Also, I know how to take good care of a violin, without knowing how to play one, thanks to RP research.

And I have found an authentic Vampire Killing Kit from the 1700s that I want, due to getting sidetracked while researching stuff for RP.

[iwasalevel6.livejournal.com]

Don't ask me. Ask Jack Bauer-mun. She researches all sorts of crazy things.

[ashen_key]

For Bianca: laws regarding courtesans wearing pearls in late 15th century Venice and the sequence of Botticelli's paintings.

For Mordred: fashions and armour of Post-Roman, pre-England Britain

For Delia: Renaissance dance-steps

For Morgan: her powers. Seriously. They are that random.

[red_notebooks]

Ionic and covalent bonds so Jarod could explain them to Bruce in his entrance post, even, IIRC...

[prince-arithon.livejournal.com]

When the Hokey Pokey was invented. I need to add that one.

FYI: After Tom arrived in Milliways. He didn't know what it was either.

[maid-of-astolat.livejournal.com]

I had to research whether or not medieval women wore underwear or not.

They don't.

[skjaldmeyjar.livejournal.com]

I think that's true for.... earlier time periods, too. *snicker* All for just trying to be true to research, of course!

[maid-of-astolat.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Yup. In the name of *cough* reasearch *cough*.

:)