Quizeroo #2

[themidnightgirl]

This worked so well when I did it last, I think I'll do it again.

No googling, or I'll accuse you of being a chump.

I don't even know what a chump is, but it's not great when it's pork, so it can't be that good when applied to people.

Words from a song... tell me the song and the singer.

1) design, blackeyed, havoc, back. REM - The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight - ashfae
2) career, churchill, tyne Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army - the_maenad
3) undertaker, induction, destruction
4) perfumed, blue-blooded, vintage, kegs
5) ash, devil, witching, flower
6) heartbeat, missing, calling, cure, wake
7) violets, demanding, stomach, scream Prince - When Doves Cry - User deleted his comment (no idea why!)
8) coon-skin, fire-hose, whirlpool, manhole Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues - purpleheather
9) Rob Dickens, Khartoum, Clouds Enya - Orinocco Flow - purplepiano
10) hyped feet, dope, magic, The Bay, pants

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

1. R.E.M. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight? That's the only song I can think of containing the word "blackeyed," though I can't remember where "havok" might appear in it...

[borusa.livejournal.com]

"The cat in the hat came back, wreaked a lot of havoc on the way."

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

hahahha that is very cool. i am sure i used to sing that as "the cat in the hat came back, slept along the cabbage patch" - which, hey MAKES NO SENSE! and i never thought to look up the real words.

and does 'wreaked a lot of havoc on the way' sound like 'slept along the cabbage patch'? well, a tiny bit maybe. you listen and decide.

:)

Their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream...

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was never able to understand the last half of that sentence! A mystery solved, huzzah! Thanks. =)

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

(perhaps a chump is low-quality chimp)

[andrewwyld.livejournal.com]

Then what is a champ?

Since twit and twat mean the same thing, I think twout should, too.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware twit and twat did mean the same thing..."twat" is a pretty rude word where I come from, whereas "twit" is a cute way of saying "idiot." "Twout" sounds rather like a two year old trying to name a fish.

A champ is a chimp who's very, very good at being a chimp!

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Twit and twat definitely don't mean the same thing! Twit means idiot, whereas twat means, err, the vagina (so it's a slightly better way of saying "cunt")

Except the OED denies all knowledge of this meaning, so I may be going mad.

[andrewwyld.livejournal.com]

Twit also means vagina, although it isn't very commonly used.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Gosh. You learn something every day. Although I'm still surprised by the OEDs silence on the subject, it isn't usually this coy...

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

I think 6 is Evanescence, Bring Me to Life.

Not sure what the others are I don't think, but clearly number 10 is one that Nick needs to know. *g*

[borusa.livejournal.com]

I think "No" to both parts is in order. You'll see why. :)

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can think of with Coon-skin is Subterranean homesick blues...

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Wahoo! Bob Dylan?

[andrewwyld.livejournal.com]

I feel I ought to know 4 and will kick myself when someone gets it.

[taimatsu]

Completely unconnected note (for I is a musical nignoramus) - I am off to C's shortly, and she says being picked up latelatelate is no problem, so could you collect me after bridge like we discussed?

I have been shopping, written filk and done more costume stuff. I bought one of your favourite things to eat! :)

[purplepiano.livejournal.com]

9 is Enya's Orinoco Flow.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

2: Elvis Costello, "Oliver's Army"
3: Barry McGuire, "Eve of Destruction"?
5: Genesis, "Supper's Ready" ??

I'd have got 8.

[borusa.livejournal.com]

2 is right! 3 and 5 are wrong...

Respectively, "Eve Of Destruction" does not have the word "Induction" in it, and "Supper's Ready" doesn't have "ash". (I sort of stop looking after the first one)

[nymphofairy.livejournal.com]

I think three is war I'm not sure, but I think Bruce Springsteen? Springstine...springstene...uh yeah. I can't spell it. :P