Thursday, August 27, 2009

#134 - Secretary

1 was an utopian thinker. 2 was infamous with prostitutes and known for his pornographic novels. Obfuscation of their names are taken in the same breath. Connect(Give me these obfuscation of names)

1.
2.
The title MAY give you a clue, but normally it will be my lame attempts at cracking a joke.


Answer: Sadism and Masochism named after these two dudes Leopold von-Sacher Masoch and Marquis de Sade.


Cracked left right and centre by 19 of you!! Awesome to see so much enthu!!
Cracked by Srivats, morgankuze, Anerudh Balaji, Arun, jj, Aey Cee Dee Cee, Achyuth aka Tempo, Service, Vinayak Sapru, Sandeep, Neo/Chandrakant, Anand/Ducky, Vinayak, Vishal Chandrasekar, Abstract Randomness, Nakki and Dinesh Krithivasan. Immanuel and Aravind pinged/messaged me to give the answer.

17 comments:

Srivats said...

Sacher Masoch and the Marquis de Sade... Sadism and Masochism

Anubhav said...

Sadism and Masochism ?

Anerudh Balaji said...

1. Leopald von Sacher Masoch - the word Masochism is derived from his name
2. Marquis de sade-the word sadism is derived from his name!!!

Arun said...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade.

The term is Sadomasochism...

jj said...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade Sadism and Masochism. Samaadhi and his LGBT fantasies.

Aey Cee Dee Cee said...

sadomasochism, innit?

Achyuth aka Tempo said...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade whose names are a part of BDSM (Sadism and Masochism)

Is the title a reference to the movie Secretary with Maggie Gyllenhaal (who looks really horrible in it)?

Unknown said...

Sacher-Masoch and Marquis De Sade
Masochism and Sadism

Vinayak Sapru said...

sadism and masochism.
a rather good first question for the second coming of the blog.

Unknown said...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

and

Marquis de Sade ...


the connect is BDSM

Neo said...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch --> Masochism

Marquis de Sade --> Sadism

Chandrakant

Ducky said...

2 is obly Marquis de Sade and therefore by extension, 1 must be that Masoch person. And if your 'lame attempt at joke' was a reference to the 2002 movie with Maggie Gyllenhal, then... sigh, the LAN's not what it used to be.
-Ducky

vinayak said...

Sadomasochism

Vishal Chandrasekar said...

Some Sado-Masochism funda? Sadism + Masochism...named after these 2 guys

Abstract Randomness said...

Masochism. (what the hell man why do u even research this stuff)

Nakul PS said...

sacher masoch and marquis sade. contributed masochism and sadism.

secretary?

Dinesh Krithivasan said...

The people are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and Marquis de Sade. The obfuscation that is uttered in the same (usually strained) breath is sadomasochism.