Help me make a clever employee bio page.

July 27, 2006 4:25 PM

I'd like to make an interesting and funny bio web page for the student employees in a college IT department. Can anyone suggest some funny questions to include in the bios?

I'd like it to include name, home town, year in school, and all the rest of the normal stuff. I'd also like it to include some silly and completely unrelated questions, like "Can you touch your nose with your tongue?" or "What movie could you watch fifty times in a row?"
Problem: I'm not very clever. Can anyone suggest some funny questions to include in the bios?

posted by yogurtisgenocide to society & culture (11 comments total)

Boxers or breifs?
posted by Ironmouth at 4:50 PM on July 27, 2006

Somewhere (Wired maybe) there was an article where everyone listed their 5 dream Jeopardy categories. Something like that could be amusing, but you're going to have to give them a good example.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 4:55 PM on July 27, 2006

What's the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?
posted by Mr. Gunn at 5:04 PM on July 27, 2006

What do you call a female egret?
What's the opposite of progress?
posted by Mr. Gunn at 5:05 PM on July 27, 2006

You're stuck on a life raft with Paris Hilton, a sheep, and a vial of poison. Do you:

A:Make like DaVinci
B:Make like a Scotsman
C:Make like Socrates
D:All of the above.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 5:07 PM on July 27, 2006

Where's the "Any" key?
posted by Mr. Gunn at 5:09 PM on July 27, 2006

Who would play you in a movie of your life?
What could you do on David Letterman's stupid human tricks?
What's your favorite spam subject line?
What fictional character would you most like to eat?
What can most people do that you cannot?
And of course, how many five-year-olds could you take in a fight?
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 5:10 PM on July 27, 2006

The "dream Jeopardy categories" thing from Douglas Coupland's Microserfs. That's the one I was going to suggest.
posted by web-goddess at 5:32 PM on July 27, 2006

Yogurt: dead or alive?
What five things are always in your fridge?
What would rather lose, everything on your HDD or everything in your wallet/purse/desk?
posted by Dreama at 9:35 PM on July 27, 2006

Two personality-revealing conversation-starters:

- If you could have one superhero power, would you choose the ability to become invisible or the ability to fly?

- Pirates or ninjas?
posted by hazelshade at 10:23 PM on July 27, 2006

As a follow on to Dreama's question (HDD or wallet?) anyone who says they'd rather lose their wallet than their hard drive should then be asked to describe their backup strategy.
posted by jacalata at 12:03 AM on July 28, 2006