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micklpkl
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response 475 of 644:
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Oct 20 17:54 UTC 2000 |
brighn has the correct question.
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brighn
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response 476 of 644:
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Oct 20 21:33 UTC 2000 |
Let's keep it easy...
This Michigander played Buddy Holly in the most recent movie about that fatal
plane crash. ("recent" being relative)
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mcnally
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response 477 of 644:
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Oct 20 22:29 UTC 2000 |
Who is Marshall Crenshaw?
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brighn
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response 478 of 644:
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Oct 20 22:49 UTC 2000 |
Yep. figured it would be easy.
(Here's an interesting bit of trivia that WOULD have been my Jeopardy answer
had I entered it just now: On the CD for "American Bad Ass", there's one word
that's reversed to censor it. Kid Rock says lots of stuff in that song, all
of which you can hear: fu**, sh**, suck my di**. So what's the censored word?
Heh. But this is just weird trivia, too arcane to be a fair Jeopardy
question.)
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bruin
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response 479 of 644:
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Nov 5 23:42 UTC 2000 |
Do you have a clue for us, mcnally?
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bruin
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response 480 of 644:
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Nov 19 02:39 UTC 2000 |
Earth to mcnally -- do you have another Jeopardy answer, or should I
throw it open to others to give said clue?
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mcnally
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response 481 of 644:
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Nov 23 10:13 UTC 2000 |
OK, I've come up with two questions. Do you want the "easy" one
or the "hard" one?
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bruin
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response 482 of 644:
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Nov 23 14:49 UTC 2000 |
Re #481 It's up to you, mcnally.
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bmoran
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response 483 of 644:
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Nov 30 15:29 UTC 2000 |
Why
Don't
You
Give
Us
The
Easy
One
,
So
We
Can
Get
On
With
This
Item
.
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mcnally
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response 484 of 644:
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Dec 2 01:33 UTC 2000 |
I'll just throw out both, it occurs to me that neither one is a
particularly classic question and they might be a little obscure.
A correct response for either will be sufficient..
1) This Minneapolis-based band from the late 80's titled their
second album in homage to the breakthrough album of a Seattle-
born superstar.
2) Beatle Ringo Starr shot the photo of the lead singer that
appears on this band's 1972 release.
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lumen
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response 485 of 644:
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Dec 2 03:40 UTC 2000 |
Is 1) The Experience? If that's true, then to be correct, you must
say that the superstar was Renton-born, or from the Seattle area.
Sorry, I'm from Washington, so I'm going to be anal about it if this
is the case..
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bruin
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response 486 of 644:
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Dec 2 04:21 UTC 2000 |
1) Who are the Information Society?
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mcnally
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response 487 of 644:
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Dec 3 23:35 UTC 2000 |
re #486: although they were Minneapolis-based, Information Society is
not the band I was looking for, and my research shows that their second
album was "Hack." If you're able to spin a convincing case supporting
your answer I'll award you the question, but simply being from Minneapolis
is not sufficient to satisfy all parts of the "answer"
re #485: the source I checked claims that the well-known musician of whom
I was thinking was born in Seattle, however I am not sure whether this
particular reference would distinguish between Seattle proper and other
parts of the Seattle metropolitan area. Renton is pretty far from downtown
but for the sake of argument let's cover all bets and just say "Western
Washington."
One clarification, one suggestion:
1) In case it's not already incredibly obvious, the two "answers" above
fit different "questions".
2) since I'm going to accept any "question" which satisfies the "answers"
which means I might wind up having to award either one based on info I
wasn't aware of, people who have a solid guess might want to supply
supporting information (e.g. the name of the album and how it fits the
clue.) Of course you're still welcome to make a wild guess and if
you happen to hit the result I had in mind, you still win even if you
don't know why..
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brighn
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response 488 of 644:
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Dec 4 05:06 UTC 2000 |
Since you suggested one of them was obvious, what the Hell:
2) What is Wings?
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mcnally
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response 489 of 644:
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Dec 4 21:20 UTC 2000 |
Actually, neither of these is obvious, but there's the one that can
presumably be figured out without strenuous effort (1) and the one
that you'd probably have to know about ahead of time or else do some
digging (2)..
Anyway, Wings is not the band I had in mind for (2) and according to
my reference sources, they didn't release an album in 1972, so it'll
be hard to make a case for them..
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tpryan
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response 490 of 644:
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Dec 5 01:54 UTC 2000 |
1) Who is Krypton?
2) Who is Badfinger?
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mcnally
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response 491 of 644:
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Dec 5 02:13 UTC 2000 |
I have no idea who Krypton are, nor do they appear in the All Music Guide,
which is the source I've been using to check on things. If you provide me
an explanation of why you feel they fit the question and it's fairly
plausible, that will be enough to satisfy me..
Despite their Beatles connection, though, I'm going to have to reject
Badfinger because, like Wings, they didn't release an album in 1972
(although both bands had releases in 1971 and 1973..)
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tpryan
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response 492 of 644:
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Dec 5 22:22 UTC 2000 |
1) they do fun music and are from Minneapolis
2) SWAG
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mcnally
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response 493 of 644:
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Dec 6 00:47 UTC 2000 |
keep guessing..
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brighn
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response 494 of 644:
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Dec 6 13:22 UTC 2000 |
#481 of 493: by Mike McNally (mcnally) on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 (05:13):
OK, I've come up with two questions. Do you want the "easy" one
or the "hard" one?
Unless the answer to #1 is somehow related to Prince (and I don't see how),
I'm not sure in which universe either of these clues could be defined as
"easy."
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tpryan
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response 495 of 644:
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Dec 6 17:42 UTC 2000 |
1) Who is Vanity?
2) Who is George Harrison?
(more swag)
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mcnally
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response 496 of 644:
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Dec 6 21:57 UTC 2000 |
Note the irony-quotes around "easy" and "hard"..
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brighn
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response 497 of 644:
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Dec 8 03:33 UTC 2000 |
I would like to report: the WWW is bulloxed. I did a search for "seatlle born
musician" and got 8 matches.
Reread the search phrase, you'll see why I say it's bulloxed.
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brighn
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response 498 of 644:
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Dec 8 03:49 UTC 2000 |
Here are some Seattle-born musicians, btw...
Jimi Hendrix didn't have a "breakthrough" album... his first album (Are You
Experienced?) WAS his breakthrough album. All the same, I can see some
post-New Wave debauch on that title (after all, Devo -- not from Minnesota,
I don't think -- covered the title track, but far from their second album).
Judy Collins. Her breakthrough album appears to have been "Wildflowers". Tom
Petty also had an album called Wildflowers, but it wasn't his second, he was
more of an early-80s thang, and he's not from Minnesota. Forgive those
details, there's your answer. ;}
some folkie named EArl Hawley, whos musical heydey seems to have predated
albums.
Bill Reiflin and (bien sur) Mr. Cobain, both of whom are too recent to
qualify.
But hey, I'm having fun digging. =}
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brighn
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response 499 of 644:
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Dec 8 04:00 UTC 2000 |
Aha! I found the "hard" one first! Who is T Rex?
(Although, according to this website, taht information is wrong:
In any case, the new T.Rex album was called the Slider and it was released
in July of 1972. The front and back of the album pictured the front and back
of Marc wearing the same tall hat he had been seen wearing in the "Born to
Boogie" movie. The album sleeve erroneously listed the source of the
photographs as Ringo Starr. The real photographer had been Tony Visconti but,
apparently, Marc was still trying to establish ties to the other Rock
superstars to bolster his own image.
http://www.primenet.com/~regenold/marc/trex.html)
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