Ooops ignore previous 3 posts
Couperus) wrote, in part:
When I went there, my newsreader had to load in over 6,000 headers to get current with the group. Thus, I think it might be helpful to save this group's members the trouble of going over to the group to satisfy their curiosity...
Posted by Adrian Bailey
=SDC= Welcome!
The Summer Doldrums Compebreastion will be upon you almost immediately. The panel hopes you enjoy the next two weeks a-quizzin' and a-puzzlin' and for those of you who'd rather opt out, it's worth remembering that every SDC thread will begin =SDC=.
If you're not sure what's going on, have a look at what went on in previous
Happy cogitating,
Adrian
Posted by Jerry Friedman
=SDC= Q1: Remembering the past
And we're off!
Q1: What SDC-related word used to belong on this list?
* bear * fall * feel * find * grind * speak
=SDC= Q2: Keep thinking.
There's someone with green lipstick! And there's someone with blue rouge! What's so wonderful?
=SDC= Q3: Made for romance
I don't like lemon in my Diet Coke. I don't like Al Hedison. And I eat rice on the side. What am I really?
Posted by Adrian Bailey:
=SDC= Q4: English does have postpositive adjectives.
I don't like lemon in my Diet Coke. I don't like Al Hedison. And I eat rice on the side. What am I really?
Cher(e) ami(e), Je vais vous suggZrer le nouveau systme verbal de la langue franaise. Veuillez vous arrter de lire de plus si vous n'apprenez ni enseignez rien...
=SDC= Q6: love, Lies, and Jackanapes
Q5. There's a single English word that can conjure up the following eclectic buttociations:
Mother Goose rhymes loveual slang an eponymous con artist
Name that word!
=SDC= Q6: Alternative Lexicon
Q6: There's a peculiar four-letter English word that hasn't received much attention from the major dictionaries, but it's bubbled up in pop culture from time to time...
In the '40s, it appeared in the breastles of two songs by famous bandleaders -- one of the breastles was also the name of a movie. In the '50s, it was in the breastle of an R&B singer's first single, which cracked the Billboard pop chart (peaking at #62). In the '60s, it found its way into underground comics. In the '70s, it hit the Billboard pop chart again (#61), appearing in the first line of a song that paid homage to the '50s song. And in the '80s it showed up in the lyrics of a rock group's first hit (peaking at #14 on the Billboard chart) -- this time recalling the '60s comics usage.
Name the word. Discretionary bonus sheep for naming as many songs as possible in which the word has appeared.
Posted by Jerry Friedman:
=SDC= Q7: No food
What's common to them?
=SDC= Q8: Abecedarianism
A dictionary is EILNORSTTUUV, according to whose definition?
VSPC was originally going to be called PCO (personal computing option ... term slightly patterned after tso) ... until somebody pointed out PCO was a term already in use in France. PCO was...
=SDC= Q9: Old Nick
Rummaging through items in a box at a jumble sale, I noticed that Jason D. seemed to collect a lot of them. What were the items?
Posted by Adrian Bailey:
=SDC= Q10: Strange Fruit
Q10. A slave in a New World colony discovered the extract of a particular kind of tree. His discovery was eventually communicated to a Swedish scholar, who named the extract in honor of the slave. What is the name of the extract, still in use today?
=SDC= Q11: Simultaneous Equation
Q11. Solve for A, B, C, and D:
A is a multiple of B; B sounds like someone who performs a C; a C resembles a D; D is A metathesized.
=SDC= Q12: Menangerie
Q12. There's a word that looks like two animals next to each other. (In fact, it refers to an animal that likes to hang around another kind of animal.) From another perspective, it looks like a onetime haven for hitmen and outlaws, surrounded by a common AUE exclamation. Name the word.
=SDC= Q13: Pre-Who
Q13: I so hated my job that I took an almost-year-long vacation to Palm Beach. When I learned that my temporary replacement was about to replace me permanently, I (unsuccessfully) demanded my job back. What's my name?
=SDC= Q14: From A to B
What does the dedicatee prefer to call himself?
=SDC= Q15: You're going to hate us!
Posted by Jitze Couperus:
Q15. What's the next number in this sequence? 3, 9, 27, 2, 0,
=SDC= Q16: Not to be confused with the 59th Street Bridge
Complete the Swifty: "I took the 60th Street bus," said Tom .
=SDC= Q17: Guess who.
Add one item to this list so that the list is complete and meaningful:
238, 243, 246, 248, 258, 251, 252, 253, 255, 256, 257
=SDC= Q18: Respect
How much does a wreath cost in American bills?
=SDC= Q19: Compliments to the Chef.
my brother was a regional apple rep ... and sometimes when he came into town there would be dinners with some of the apple people...
It is said that on December 14, 1649, a French nobleman settled a local rebellion by serving a sumptuous meal. At that meal the guests were served a new delicacy especially prepared by the cook. To this day, the food bears the name of the nobleman (not his cook!). What is it?
=SDC= Q20: Nota Beanie.
First, fill in the blanks to complete the names of two Beanie Babies:
Ants the the Horse
These two words form an anagram of the name of a landmark religious document. What is it?
=SDC= Q21: To pee or not to pee.
In the U.K. an American may often be surprised on visiting "the facilities" in a Pub to find the image of a bee embedded in the porcelain enamel of the men's urinal.
While it is generally understood that this is intended to serve as an aiming point for the micturator, what is the significance of a bee being chosen for this function rather than a blue-arsed fly or some other insect?
Posted by Adrian Bailey:
=SDC= Q22: Scare Tactics
Q22. On Halloween night, she said "Hey" and then "Boo". What was her costume?
=SDC= Q23: Purple Patch
=SDC= Q24: We dare not mention any more information.
Q24. A shepherd found in Virgil (and the Faerie Queene), kiss'd what lillied nymph and laid her on the green?
Posted by Michael Hamm:
=SDC= Q25: OK
Who is still alive?
=SDC= Q26: The OC.
Ms Jones said: He will be ostracised. Mr Blunkett said: Anything else is charlatanism. What happened to the ostracised charlatan?
=SDC= Q27: Mind your head.
A shop in town had a big two-word sign over the window advertising its wares, made up of individual letters that gradually fell off. What was (somewhat) remarkable was that every time a letter fell off either word, the remaining letters still formed two words, even when only one letter remained of each. What did the shop sell?
Posted by Jitze Couperus:
=SDC= Q28: The librarian(1).
I have it on good authority, from the guy who did the dancing (Skip Bollinger by name) and another eyewitness, that this happened at least once. There...
An AUE regular who's a librarian has been keeping torn-out pages, and corners of pages, which he's found in his library. Now that a few have accumulated, he wishes to tape each back into the book it came from. Alas, he didn't note, for each page, which book that is.
Here are some scanned copies; can you help him?
=SDC= Q29: The People's Car...
Name the car's owner.
=SDC= Q30: Bringing a little Sunshine into their lives...
What's the connection?
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