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56: Ring them bells
57: Bend in the water 59: Too many clues in this room |
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joveski,congrats ! nails 3 of 6 in one swing !
That leaves: Q's: 55, 58, and 60 Too soon for 2nd clues i admit your good ~geo steve |
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harmony / tag along / COTS, respectively (and respectfully)
ps) steve, before I'd went away on mini vacation I had read your explanation of arborite 'dreams'...I knew what arborite was for sure but not in this context and I think your insight/hunch was right on, thanks |
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jj,
harmony / tag along / COTS, respectively (and respectfully) Wow, between you two, joveskiand you, we have 2 pair of 3 home-runs fastest guns in the West, er East, North, and South lol we are a bit spread around aren't we ! That's the fastest 6 questions have gone so far. Maybe they are to easy, yes/no ? huh-huh hehe.... we have vays of fixing zat. Q's 61 - 66 Sportsfans and contemplative, cerebral, non sports fans alike ! Q61....she moves Q62....carried me Q63....looms Q64....suppertime Q65....stairway Q66.... rings HAVE FUN ~GEO STEVE |
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Q61 - No Mistake About It
Q64 - Brave Mountaineers |
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formerlyLavender gets two of them, well-done.. hehe to tell you the truth, from the time I wrote the 6 earlier, I forgot which one I heard "suppertime" in my head on, and had to consult the ultimate internet companion - Wayne Francis' site and remember , yes it was Brave Mountaineers - my favourite "Childhood" song". lol And, "No Mistake About it" is a very singular, if not haunting refrain from that song by that name, it keeps echo'ing in it , and in the background, kind of eerie. You know, Gordon has a recurrent theme of the term "mistake, or is it just me...as in mistake in this song, "a mistake you better not make it twice" - something like that in COTS - I wonder if that is a painful reminder for him of something....who knows. we're in this room for fun.
So, that leaves:Q's:62,63,65,66 harder ones this time all 6 ~geo steve |
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Q62 - Morning Glory
Q66 - I'll Tag Along |
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RM: You got me on an ambiguous case! I'll Tag Along" -yes of course, the smoke rings..... I forgot about that one... I thought I had a hard-to-get, obscure one with "The Soul is the Rock" , and the line in this part:
The soul is the rock and the rock will always roll In circles 'round the sun doing rings around the pole When the mind is not sure what the heart will do next The rock becomes the master and the road becomes what's left Thats the only time I am looking things up - on Wayne Francis' Site (when I'm doing this), is when there is an ambiguous case I have to verify when its not the one I intended. But sure enough , you are right (you knew that lol), for others benefit: This time tomorrow we might all be packed and gone I believe it's best we carry on Smoke rings rising til they disappear In the sky above If you ask me I'll tag along You got me..... And of course Morning Glory is right, too. OK so that leaves just Q's 63 & 65: Q63......looms..... Q65......stairway.... not stair,stairs, or staircase if the Q arises...those (3)are other songs!) - the reason I know....is it occurred to me that not only was "rings" that Ron got on an ambiguous case, I got to thinking of the other clues remaining. Stairway is ambiguous to my knowledge only in its root forms and tenses - such as stair,stairs, stairwell, etc. In other forms -stair, the singular case, is ambiguous , in 2 songs, and....stairs [plural case] is ambiguous, and staircase appear in 3 distinct other songs. So, we are looking for that (one I believe) song with "stairway" . The only reason I am sure now, reasonably, is its the only time I DO look in the lyrics tables of Wayne Francis' site, or alt.music.lightfoot search, that is, when I have an ambiguous case that comes up when someone guesses a song I had not envisioned, and it turns out to be ambiguous. Otherwise, I enjoy doing this off-the-cuff as do you I suspect. The answer to the clue stairway by song name is a surprise I did not intend, but having made the clue, Its not fair to change it of me. You'll know what I mean when you figure out stairway. ~geo steve |
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hey guys,
that got your attention... I think we're played out on interest.... I'll stop posting more..... unless, comparitively sleaking, I am flooded with msgs....somehow I doubt it lol..... the last two questions ...loom... "my father loom(s) (oops) above me.. thats why you guys didn't get Sit Down Young Stranger".... and ........stairWAY.... from COTS CD: "The Soul Is the Rock": Say what you like to do what you can, live like a sheep, die like a lamb Bats in the roof, cats in the hall, dust on the stairway, gnats on the wall Big rain coming, big rain coming this way Rain on the rock, rain on the rock, rain on the rock So, that closes out 61 - 66. Lemme know if you want to do more, as of now we are about 3 days into no activity 'cept one or 2 - thanks guys I had fun ~geo steve |
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i dont mind if you keep the thread alive..
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OK Joveski - thank you for "keeping the ball in play". I've had fun - why not... 6 more - then see if you or others want to keep going... I enjoy it for sure. OK 67 - 72:
Q67....candid.... Q68....at labor.... Q69....poor dirt.... Q70....sighs.... Q71....clowned.... Q72....stem.... HAVE FUN:biggrin: ~geo steve |
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Q67 - The House You Live In
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Q68- Crossroads ??
Great thread Geo Steve... :) |
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FormerlyLavendar: YES ! On Q67 The House You Live In ! congratulations !
~geoSteve |
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Jesse JoeQ68: Crossroads is correct ! Congratulatins ! and welcome back, thanks for playing the game to you AND formerlyLavendar!
That leaves Q's 69, 70, 71, and 72 ~geo Steve |
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Q72 - Too Late For Prayin'
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RM ....LOL.... I like that response... have I been....using the font size and colors..a little too much.... lol ? Your answer, RM, is correct ! "stem" for Q72 - from 'Too Late For Prayin' .
It's interesting to me, what with all the previous discussion of "stemming", that maybe Lightfoot himself is also defining it by alternately using its root - "stem" - the tide, or to , as in programming (there's a stretch) stem or stemming is to conflate, or condense, or reduce to its smallest recognizable form eg stemming gets "stemmed" in programming likely to "stem". And to stem the tide, websters says " Main Entry: stem Function: transitive verb Inflected Form(s): stemmed; stem·ming Etymology: Middle English (Scots) stemmen to keep a course, from stem (of a ship) Date: 1593 1 : to make headway against (as an adverse tide, current, or wind) 2 : to check or go counter to (something adverse) — stem·mer noun so. to "stem" the tide in Q72's song, would literally be to make headway against the tide, but maybe metaphorically, in the song, 'to stem the tide of broken dreams' - would be to , as in #2 above in the definition = to check or to counter..the tide of.... broken dreams...etc... I wonder if that in any way leads to Lightfoots use of stemming ? aha - in the Visual Thesaurus - which makes a map of synonyms or miildly related words the father way from the word of choice... stemming.. in this case.... very close to it..is quite simply (scottish) (which Lightfoot has said he is of Scots origin..) "to take" as "take the gold that falls in the bar" - whaddya think ? stem means the same thing as one of the visual thesaurus many, many synonyms, but take is close in proximiy in the word map to stem, so they say its a primary synonym...., Sounds reasonable to me.....for stemming gold.... Thanks RM lol i get it..... ~geo steve |
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69: Red velvet
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Joveski - poor dirt farm 'Red Velvet' it is - you got it :)
that leaves Q's 70 & 71 Q70 ....sighs....... Q71.....clowned... ~geo steve |
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Q70 - Softly
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formerlyLavendar, you got it on Q70 - ....sighs..... - - from "Softly". Congratulations !
That leaves onlty Q71 ....clowned..... ~geo steve |
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My trigger finger was itching, so I decided to take out........
Q71 - Cherokee Bend |
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RM's trigger-finger was a 'itchin....and he pulls the gun out and Cherokee Bend he shot out like it was the end......his eyes squinting in the noonday sun... er sundown... but Geo steve was facin' away from the sun, and little did RM know, there was a stunt tech behind steve with a bungee-chord on the gun...and he pulled it -snap- like lightnin...and both...lay silent...the crowd was afraid the thread was done but, what could it be, but Joveski..., who said politely to the crowd...,.. "folks"........pssst, Joveski, say somethin, save ...the threads......life.. ..umph...steve drops, in exhaustion..afraid the thread... is dead...."Jov.es"... he managed to cough out . ??
NEWS BUMMETIN....ER BULLLETIN: we interrupt this thread with breaking news, "geo steve" and "RM" have apparenty engaged in a life-or-stuntman-faked death verbal exchange of wits and ... sophomoric genre-correct humourous cliches... and await a hero to appear in the setting sun....the fate of the thread appears to be hanging in the balance..Mr. Joveski has saved this town before...but will he do it..again..Back to your regularly-sceduled thread" 'sirreebob that reminds me of the crepuscular, clouded day when I said with aplombe and excess adjectives in redundancy, to that ne'er do well,Sir... "shut-up steve" the post is over.... "oh...sorry guys I'm sorry... lol will Joveski.... or another hero de jour save the day ? thanks RM, CORRECT ! ~geo steve |
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Q's 73 - 78 await your expression of interest... :)
Is the thread wanted.. dead or alive..?.. lol |
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folks will answer..many are getting kids ready for school, on holiday, busy with yardwork, outside enjoying the last of summer..be patient..
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I enjoy the thread...I say keep it going.
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OK formerlyLavendar :) , Will do. Thanks !
Q's73-78 Q73....ya..... Q74....happened.... Q75....bargained.... Q76....each day.... Q77....rules on.... Q78....inclined Have fun ! :biggrin: |
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Q73 - Much To My Surprise
Q78 - Bend In the Water |
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Q74= Shadows
Q75= Can't Depend on Love. |
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formerlylavender
You replied: Quote:
Q78 - Bend In the Water is CORRECT ! CONGRATULATIONS!. :clap: :headbang: And: JohninCt. you replied : Quote:
That leaves.. Q73....ya....clue: this one may be ambiguous, so another clue is ....know ya Q76....each day.... & Q77....rules on..... Have fun ! :biggrin: when 'yer done in the sun :cool: ! |
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Q77 - Dreamland
This is one of my favorite 'lesser known' Lightfoot tunes. "Then you run the rules on me" |
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73: Wreck of the edmund fitzgerald
76: That same old obsession |
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RM - its one of my favorites, too - steve
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And Joveski - - did you see the song-fight at the GL corral ? -7 posts above with RM and me ? lol Quote:
more ? |
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OK,
interest is up, RM, formerlyLavendar, and Joveski are all in town... the piano plays down at the saloon....... geo steve says "I'm gonna have me a rootin-tootin good time, and see if yuz can annsser theez ! pfft !! Q's 79 - 84: Q79....captured.... Q80....other..... Q81....wicked.... Q82....drivin' Q83....can't see.... Q84....regret.... Have fun cowpokes ! |
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79: That same old obsession
80: East of midnight? - an(other) in rangoon :) 81: Shadows 82: Cant depend on love 83: Circle is small?? ('cannot see' is in that one) 84: Hey you |
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Joveski
Clean-sweeps the lyrics Olympics by picking-up all 6 in a shut-out.! The "cannot" versus can't is a win not by K.O. but by decision, as that's close enough. Congratulations to the man from down under. Singlehandedly, he has saved the GL Corral again ! Meanwhile, Steve is back at the mountaintop retreat, and has beern furiously scribbling songs, lyrics, wadding up paper, throwing it out, starting over.... he wants to give the intrepid, the cognescente, and illuminati of the Lightfoot lyric, that these cunning....Feats of Leger Demaine...reap the reward of the valiant as once did the Knights of the Round Table. Even moreso, he wishes to further enLighthead them; as a dedicated public servant, he succesfully brings 6 more sets of encrypted word, phrase, idiome, or portion removed from great prose; that even the Socratic Philopher and the great Da Vinci himself would find a rewarding challenge to discerne the works of the great Troubadour by isolated word or phrase alone; written in song for the weary, the morose, the one who needeth hope, by the minstrele who is light of foot, pure and noble of heart, wise and learned of vast experience and countless readings of great works indeed ! ....a runner takes the completed set of 6 new arcane clues down the trail from the remote and isolated outpost , where steve, triumphant but humbled by the magnificence of the prose he has been enLighthean'd by himself and given cause to contemplate; is in repose while simultaneously humming a single D-minor 7th over and over repeatedly, rocking back and forth, while perched in the 'Yurasses Dragon' position for meditation, which takes years of practice. He is held-up, cross-legged, "Indian-style" by just his thumbtips on the floor, having achieved Nirvana by being honoured to bring 6 more entries for the faithful, and the intelligentsia. Will his diet-pepsi and power bars hold out ? Behold; let us witness great cogitations of lucid minds, that of the likes of Joveski, RM, formerlyLavender, Char, Jesse Joe, and JohninCt., and others of equal and Noble Soul have recently been engaged in races of wit, endurance, and razor-sharp thinking. Of what type of song will the clues reveal ? From what apparent walk of life ? Arts, Sciences, Mechanick Trades, notionall faculties ?, and whatever is excogitable by man, having Lightfoot's own Method ; by vertue whereof, the Learned of these latter times have orderly digested them : Yet hath none hitherto considered of a mark, whereby words of the same Faculty, Art, Trade, or Science should be dignosced from those of another by the very sound of the word at the first hearing. A Tree; a song, will be known by its leaves and hence its lyrics; a stone by its grit, a Flower by the fragrance, Meats by the taste, Musick by the ear, Colours by the eye, the severall Natures of things, with their properties and essentiall qualities, by the Intellect : and accordingly as the things are in themselves diversified, the Iudicious and Learned man after he hath conceived them aright, sequestreth them in the Severall cels of their understanding each in their definite and respective places. Prepare thyself for Questions 85 - 90, oh ye of faithful Light feet and spirit ! May song and word bring your hearts peace and contemplative restfullness upon completion in part or in whole, of...the Solutions. Q85....ashamed.... Q86....worthiness.... Q87....wonder.... Q88....blue light.... Q89....gravy.... Q90....redeemed.... rejoice ! may you find myrth and merriment from this virtuous pasttime... :biggrin: |
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Joveski is very good at this... The Champ!!! :clap: |
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86: Protocol
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89: Make Way For The Lady
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Jesse Joe says" keep 'em coming; they're hard, but he too wants to do more ! OK !
moreover, he ventures: Quote:
4 MORE TO GO: Q's 85,87,88, & 90 Have fun ! and.. good to see you in the game Jesse Joe |
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