{"id":12671,"date":"2010-01-06T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T20:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/06\/12671.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:01","slug":"encore-encore-answers-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/06\/encore-encore-answers-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Encore Encore: Answers Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It having been almost a month since anyone chimed in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/12\/02\/12584.html\">my Encore Game<\/a>, I think it is time for the answers. OK? Here we go.\n<p><ul><li><strong>Arapaho<\/strong>: <i>In the wilds of Borneo\/and the vineyards of Bordeax\/Eskimo, Arapaho\/Move their body to and fro<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A61i0Xscj-k\">Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick<\/a>&#8221;,, Ian Dury. No responses; two points for YHB. This was a hard one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bullhorn<\/strong>: <I>And then the bullhorn crackles\/and the captain tackles\/with the problems and the hows and whys<\/i>  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SaHAvEEbQOE\">I Don&#8217;t Like Mondays<\/a>&#8221;, Boomtown Rats. Jacob got a BU for the GRs about half an hour after post time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clerical<\/strong>: <i>Now a clerical collar chokes at your convictions\/You strangle slowly for the old addiction\/It&#8217;s Heaven&#8217;s army and you&#8217;re so professional\/But listen closely to this closed confessional<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lala.com\/zEE8\">Nice n Neat<\/a>&#8221;, Boomtown Rats. No responses; two points for YHB. Is it fair to have two Boomtown Rats songs in a row like that? Sure it is.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duplicitous<\/strong>: <i>Brooding, duplicitous, wicked and able\/media-ready, heartless and labeled\/Super U.S. citizen, super-achiever\/mega-ultra power dosing\/Relax: defense, defense, defense, defense<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zuknsRV5kDI\">Ignoreland<\/a>&#8221;, REM. No responses; two points for YHB. Is it fair to use REM songs at all? No. No, it isn&#8217;t. I keep the points anyway.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eucalyptus<\/strong>: <i>\nWell he packed up all his expectations he lit out for California\/With a flyswatter banjo on his knee\/With a lucky tiger in his angel hair and benzedrine for getting there\/They found him in a eucalyptus tree.<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xvS5JKZ5GCk\">Swordfishtrombone<\/a>&#8221;, Tom Waits. No responses; two points for YHB.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Furrows<\/strong>: <i>They laid him in three furrows deep\/laid clods upon his head\/then those three men took a solemn vow\/John Barleycorn was dead<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tlL9RCznuU8\">John Barleycorn<\/a>&#8221;, as recorded by Steeleye Span. Stephen gets another one for the GRs. Note that not all versions have this line, what with it being folk music and all. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j0qbNe2OJZc\">This wonderful John Renbourn Group version<\/a> does not have the word at all, for instance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gelignite<\/strong>: <i>I hope you remember to treat the gelignite tenderly\/Ah, me, I'm having dreams about things not going right\/Let's leave in plenty of time tonight<\/i>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2bYXYlCbBJ0\">There Goes a Tenner<\/a>&#8221; Kate Bush. Fran picks up another BU for y'all.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hindsight<\/strong>: <i>The island of doubt\/It's like the taste of medicine\/Working by hindsight\/Got the message from the oxygen<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6g8lFmsCXhg\">Crosseyed and Painless<\/a>&#8221;, Talking Heads. No responses; two more BUs for me.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innuendos<\/strong>: <i>Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do? Subtle innuendos follow: must be something inside<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zhvqVqLAdLI\">Goody Two Shoes<\/a>&#8221;, Adam Ant. Jacob again for a BU.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jumper<\/strong>: <i>She hooks up her cupcakes and puts on her jumper\/explains that she'll be late to her worrying mother\/she meets me in Picadilly<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cUYEsFgHl_4\">Picadilly<\/a>&#8221;, Squeeze. Nao got two BUs and Stephen two more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kneel<\/strong>: <i>And I will pray to a big god\/As I kneel in a big church<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qvl30tbq7wA\">Big Time<\/a>&#8221;, Peter Gabriel. Jacob got two BUs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lagers<\/strong>: <i>We hitch-hiked here in the pouring rain\/Now we've missed the flaming train\/Hey, can I have one of them lagers?\/Thanks very much.<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=28-nADaCGqs\">Badges, Posters, Stickers and T-Shirts<\/a>&#8221;, Dire Straits. This was the one I felt the worst about&#8212;I can defend it, but it isn't altogether cricket.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Motorcar<\/strong>: <i>On the corner is a banker with a motorcar\/The little children laugh at him behind his back\/And the banker never wears a mac\/In the pouring rain\/Very strange.<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ThLR2ekYQc\">Penny Lane<\/a>&#8221;, The Beatles. Chaos got a BU for that one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nuclei<\/strong>: <i>So the warm blood flows\/with the red blood cells lacking nuclei\/through the large four-chambered heart.<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rJf6wAQsvc8\">Mammal<\/a>&#8221;, They Might Be Giants. Stephen picked up a BU for this one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Observing<\/strong>: <i>Say, I remember when we used to sit\/In the government yard at Trenchtown\/Observing the hypocrites\/as they mingle with the good people we meet.<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jGqrvn3q1oo\">No Woman, No Cry<\/a>&#8221;, Bob Marley and the Wailers. Jacob got this one, which was one I actually expected people to get other songs with the word but not my song. Hm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pettiness<\/strong>: <i>My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards\/False gods, I scuff\/At pettiness which plays so rough\/Walk upside-down inside handcuffs\/Kick my legs to crash it off\/Say okay, I have had enough\/What else can you show me?<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dCNus_JPw2s\">It&#8217;s Alright Ma, I&#8217;m Only Bleeding<\/a>&#8221;, Bob Dylan. No responses; two points for YHB.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quickest<\/strong>: <i>if you\/miss the A-Train\/you'll find\/you've missed the quickest way to get to Harlem<\/i>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qhK-zYfFsIY\">A-Train<\/a>&#8221;, Billy Strayhorn, words later added by Joya Sherrill, probably. Chaos earned two plus an extra BU to make up for my initial skepticism about her song.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reassuringly<\/strong>: <i>And I dreamed I was dying\/And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly\/And looking back down at me\/Smiled reassuringly<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l_sl4r0eGVY\">American Tune<\/a>&#8221;, Paul Simon. BDan got a BU for getting this one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sugar-daddies<\/strong>: <i>Soon your sugar-daddies will all be gone.\nYou'll wake up some cold day and find you're alone.<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E9A6pY8T8EI\">Cry, Cry, Cry<\/a>&#8221;, Johnny Cash. No big fans of the Man in Black here? Two points for YHB.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tantric<\/strong>: <i>Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic\/Like Sting, I'm tantric\/Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8BiJF_oQhb8\">One Week<\/a>&#8221;, Barenaked Ladies. Dan P. got the BU for y'all, with Jacob backing him up.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Undefended<\/strong>: <i>When I grew up, well it felt great\/I watched how others took their fate\/Some felt afraid and undefended\/so they got mean and they pretended\/what they knew made them belong more than you<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lala.com\/ziws\">Teenagers, Kick Our Butts<\/a>&#8221;, Dar Williams. No responses; YHB gets two more BUs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vacant<\/strong>: <i>Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb\/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from\/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer\/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RZgBhyU4IvQ\">Not Dark Yet<\/a>&#8221;, Bob Dylan. No responses on another one I thought would be a fairly common word. Vacant lot, vacant&#8230; um, somethin'.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Warmer<\/strong>: <i>The language of love\/slips from my lover's tongue\/cooler than ice cream\/and warmer than the sun<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vevo.com\/watch\/eurythmics\/whos-that-girl\/GB1108300720\">Who's that Girl<\/a>&#8221;, Eurythmics. I think I'm going to grant the two BUs for Jacob and Nao and <I>South Pacific<\/i>, but nobody got Annie Lennox.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xavier<\/strong>: <i>Now I could tell you Rafaella Gabriela and Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla and Albert Andreas Armadillo found an aardvark, a kangaroo, and a rhinoceros. And now that aardvark and that kangaroo and that rhinoceros belong respectively to Rafaella Gabriela Sarsaparilla and Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla and Albert Andreas Armadillo!<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yg9MKQ1OYCg\">Pronouns<\/a>&#8221;, Schoolhouse Rock. Fran and Laura earn the GRs another unit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>yacht<\/strong>: <i>Got no mansion\/got no yacht\/still I'm happy with what I've got<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FGQJJFaIAjk\">Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night<\/a>&#8221;, Irving Berlin. Four BUs to Jacob, BDan, and Chris.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zucchini<\/strong>: <i>Oh! Wha' a beauty! I've never seen one as big as that befowah,\/Oh Oh! What a beauty, it must be two foot long&#8212;or even mowah\/And it's such a lovely color, so big, and round, and fat,\/I've never seen a zucchini grow quite as big as that!<\/i> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymusic.org\/showvideo\/08a0e86c4b5fb231114e995a60b7fe9f.php\">The Zucchini Song<\/a>&#8221;, Tim Curry. Do y'all not know the Zucchini Song? I adore the Zucchini Song. I mean. How could you not?<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Did y'all have fun on this? I surely did. Thank you Jacob, Nao, Stephen, Chris, Laura, Fran, Dan P, Chaos and BDan for playing; by my count you totaled 25 Bragging Units. I keep 24 units for the twelve words nobody got any songs on at all, plus another eight for the four words that nobody got that particular song I was thinking of. Plus all the extra BUs I get because it's my blog and I did a lot of work on this. So there. I win! Ha, ha. <p>&#047;gloaty dance\n<p>So. Another one next year?\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger finally remembers his obligation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18967,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671\/revisions\/18967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}