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#51 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:35 pm

Detroit

LSD trip

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#52 Post by Bob78164 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:35 pm

etaoin22 wrote:Q5 - More 1967

B Dennis Dale "Denny" McLain was one of the better pitching talents in the American League that year, combining with Lolich, Wilson and Sparma to form the four-man starting rotation of another very good team. That team and Minnesota just were edged out by Boston at the end of the season.

Which team?

G - However, McLain was unavailable for two weeks in September with a bad foot injury of uncertain cause. The best public guess by now of what happened, is

1 - Bad LSD trip
2 - Dropped 3 cases of Pepsi-Cola on it (his favorite beverage)
3 - Woke up with a kink in his leg (the story at the time)
4 - Stomped on by the boss of the local Mafia.
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Detroit Tigers. 4.
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#53 Post by mellytu74 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:36 pm

detroit tigers

dropped the pepsi in his foot

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#54 Post by kayrharris » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:36 pm

Cockney is the worst. I had a manicurist on a cruise ship that had a Cockney accent and I couldn't understand a word she said to me. I felt terrible. Another girl next to me helped "translate". :D
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#55 Post by ontellen » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:36 pm

That's about the same comparison, Judy.

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#56 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:37 pm

I remember Denny McClain -- a bad boy, before that was fashionable.

I think he played for Detroit.

The mob stomped him. Something about gambling.





1967 was a fine year, worthy of commemoration.

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#57 Post by kayrharris » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:37 pm

I'm sticking with Detroit...it's gotta be an answer sooner or later. :D

The Mafia answer is almost too good to have been made up, so I'll go with that one.
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#58 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:38 pm

We do have a language barrier in our house!
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#59 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:40 pm

christie1111 wrote:We do have a language barrier in our house!
Tell that husband to speak 'Murican!

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#60 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:40 pm

Yankees?

LSD - that is more interesting
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#61 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:42 pm

For reasons that are beyond my comprehension, Denny McClain made me think of Lance Rentzel, football player, who married Joey Heatherington.

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#62 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:43 pm

Even though Capt. Cook was a common denominator, Hawaiian to Yorkshire does not have a dictionary.
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#63 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:44 pm

christie1111 wrote:Even though Capt. Cook was a common denominator, Hawaiian to Yorkshire does not have a dictionary.
But think what a short book that would be, since you wouldn't have to include either vowels or consonants.

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#64 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:46 pm

A Yorkshire accent has a comforting sound to me, since that is the sound of Dr. James Herriot (in my mind, anyway. I will assume the BBC kept the accent true.)

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#65 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:47 pm

Q5 - It was Detroit, and the head of the local Mafia is said to have stomped on McLain's leg. If so, Denny was lucky, only to have this injury. . The same guy helped Hoffa into the car, a few years later.

McLain's overall life story is sad, but too stupid to be termed tragic. He was the only famous Detroit Tiger not to be named at the ceremony for the last game of Tiger Stadium, I guess about 10 years ago now. They talked about the ( racist and psychotic ) Ty Cobb, but not McLain.

I am giving the game by one point to G team for Kay's final comment. I think it tips the numbers properly, if I had a pencil..

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#66 Post by Bob78164 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:48 pm

etaoin22 wrote:Q5 - It was Detroit, and the head of the local Mafia is said to have stomped on McLain's leg. If so, Denny was lucky, only to have this injury. . The same guy helped Hoffa into the car, a few years later.

McLain's overall life story is sad, but too stupid to be termed tragic. He was the only famous Detroit Tiger not to be named at the ceremony for the last game of Tiger Stadium, I guess about 10 years ago now. They talked about the ( racist and psychotic ) Ty Cobb, but not McLain.

I am giving the game by one point to G team for Kay's final comment. I think it tips the numbers properly, if I had a pencil..
Thanks for the game, Doc! Good night. --Bob
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#67 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:49 pm

:lol:

That was incredibly sharp witted sweetie!

How can you be so clever at this time of night!

And on a totally unrelated note, my boss told me at my review that I need to take the surfactants course and I confirmed that they are not offering it on-site this year. So far the only place they offer it is Norman. Darn!

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#68 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:49 pm

Congrats, girls!

Us guys tried.

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#69 Post by mellytu74 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:50 pm

Good night all!

Good game, mester, for what I was here for it :D

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#70 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:51 pm

And I have a question for fun.

Q6 part 1

The old sportscaster Bill Stern was there for many famous firsts of the mcrophone, but wound up best known for

1 - Penchant for obviously unlikely baseball tall tales
2 - Messing up the name of President Herbert Hoover
3 - Being fired on air, by a network chief
4 - All of the above

Pt 2

Bill Stern was parodied as "Bill Kern" in a movie by what great Amerian film-maker? No mulltiple choices, for this one..

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#71 Post by kayrharris » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:52 pm

Thanks for the game, E. Sorry I was late getting in. I'm still not 100% in the way I feel and my nagging headache is trying to come back.

It was fun, as always!
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#72 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:53 pm

silvercamaro wrote:A Yorkshire accent has a comforting sound to me, since that is the sound of Dr. James Herriot (in my mind, anyway. I will assume the BBC kept the accent true.)
I will tell you from my time in Yorkshire and having seen the Herriot series, that it is accurate (if not made easier!). If someone with a strong Yourkshire accent want to lay it on thick, you will not be able to understand them.
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#73 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:53 pm

christie1111 wrote:
And on a totally unrelated note, my boss told me at my review that I need to take the surfactants course and I confirmed that they are not offering it on-site this year. So far the only place they offer it is Norman. Darn!

:D
We have some great surfactant scientists down here! I am serious. One guy, whom I interviewed long ago, was virtually a pioneer in the field, and he attracted others, etc., etc. I think the first guy, "Cheddie" (nickname for a multi-syllable Eastern European name that I can't remember without great concentration) has retired, but the secoond- and third-generation of scientists from his laboratories are still at OU.
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#74 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:55 pm

Q6 --

I guess "all of the above."

Somebody said Hoobert Heever. It might as well have been him.

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#75 Post by christie1111 » Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:56 pm

etaoin22 wrote:And I have a question for fun.

Q6 part 1

The old sportscaster Bill Stern was there for many famous firsts of the mcrophone, but wound up best known for

1 - Penchant for obviously unlikely baseball tall tales
2 - Messing up the name of President Herbert Hoover
3 - Being fired on air, by a network chief
4 - All of the above

Pt 2

Bill Stern was parodied as "Bill Kern" in a movie by what great Amerian film-maker? No mulltiple choices, for this one..
I think 4

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