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So, there hasn't been a lot of takers of my Bob Dylan Sploofus quiz, and not very many high scorers on my millionaire countdown quiz on Sploofus as well - and that should be easy - you have all the answers from my earlier posts to the bored - come on - someone should be able to ace it.

Now my Steve Goodman quiz has been published on Sploofus - if you don't know who Steve Goodman is - get out and listen to him (and while you're at it get some John Prine as well).

Take my Steve Goodman quiz here:
http://www.sploofus.com/triviaquiz/stev ... _quiz.html

Say kids, what time is it? It's Sploofus Quiz Time!

So lets get these quiz numbers up!

---Jay (The number of freckles on Howdy Doody is the same number as days to go to my air date)

BTW, let me know what you think of the various song title distractors that I made up!

I was in the middle of taking it when I got a page timeout. When I refreshed it asked me to sign in again. I then got the following message:
That quiz does not appear to be available any longer. Please email support@sploofus.com for further assistance.

Now it says I've taken it already.

I was a huge fan of Steve's and saw and met him several times.

I have his two-LP compilation from 1977. Side 1, LP 1 is so durn good I've never got beyond it.

(The Essential...)

frogman042 wrote:So, there hasn't been a lot of takers of my Bob Dylan Sploofus quiz, and not very many high scorers on my millionaire countdown quiz on Sploofus as well - and that should be easy - you have all the answers from my earlier posts to the bored - come on - someone should be able to ace it.

Now my Steve Goodman quiz has been published on Sploofus - if you don't know who Steve Goodman is - get out and listen to him (and while you're at it get some John Prine as well).

Take my Steve Goodman quiz here:
http://www.sploofus.com/triviaquiz/stev ... _quiz.html

Say kids, what time is it? It's Sploofus Quiz Time!

So lets get these quiz numbers up!

---Jay (The number of freckles on Howdy Doody is the same number as days to go to my air date)

BTW, let me know what you think of the various song title distractors that I made up!

Spoiler

good game. I got the ones I knew and one guess.

Bob Juch wrote:I was in the middle of taking it when I got a page timeout. When I refreshed it asked me to sign in again. I then got the following message:
That quiz does not appear to be available any longer. Please email support@sploofus.com for further assistance.

Now it says I've taken it already.

I was a huge fan of Steve's and saw and met him several times.

Did you tell him you had written the perfect country song?

And did he tell you that no you hadn't because you hadn't mentioned mama, trains or pickup trucks?

And did you then tell him it was raining the day you went to pick up mama at the train station in the damned old truck the day she got out of prison?

DevilKitty100 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:I was in the middle of taking it when I got a page timeout. When I refreshed it asked me to sign in again. I then got the following message:
That quiz does not appear to be available any longer. Please email support@sploofus.com for further assistance.

Now it says I've taken it already.

I was a huge fan of Steve's and saw and met him several times.

Did you tell him you had written the perfect country song?

And did he tell you that no you hadn't because you hadn't mentioned mama, trains or pickup trucks?

And did you then tell him it was raining the day you went to pick up mama at the train station in the damned old truck the day she got out of prison?

Actually I saw him perform that song before it was recorded.

Bob Juch wrote:

DevilKitty100 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:I was in the middle of taking it when I got a page timeout. When I refreshed it asked me to sign in again. I then got the following message:
That quiz does not appear to be available any longer. Please email support@sploofus.com for further assistance.

Now it says I've taken it already.

I was a huge fan of Steve's and saw and met him several times.

Did you tell him you had written the perfect country song?

And did he tell you that no you hadn't because you hadn't mentioned mama, trains or pickup trucks?

And did you then tell him it was raining the day you went to pick up mama at the train station in the damned old truck the day she got out of prison?

Actually I saw him perform that song before it was recorded.

Well, once again, you're ahead of me. I've only ever heard Jerry Jeff Walker actually perform the song.

DevilKitty100 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

DevilKitty100 wrote: Did you tell him you had written the perfect country song?

And did he tell you that no you hadn't because you hadn't mentioned mama, trains or pickup trucks?

And did you then tell him it was raining the day you went to pick up mama at the train station in the damned old truck the day she got out of prison?

Actually I saw him perform that song before it was recorded.

Well, once again, you're ahead of me. I've only ever heard Jerry Jeff Walker actually perform the song.

That was David Allen Coe.

How about "Door Number 3" by Jimmy Buffett?

ETA: Bob beat me to it.

Well you don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard (anymore.....)
Even though you're on my fightin' side

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standin' in the rain
You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'!
You never even call me by my name

Well I've heard my name a few times in your phonebook
And I've seen it on signs where I've played
But the only time I know
I'll hear David Allen Coe
Is when Jesus has that final Judgment Day

Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect Country & Western song
Well I wrote him back a letter and told him it was not the perfect
Country & Western song because he hadn't said anything at all about
Mama
or Trains
or Trucks
or Prison
or Gettin' Drunk!
So Steve sat down & wrote another verse to this song & he sent it to me
And I realized my friend had written the perfect Country & Western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here:

I was drunk
The day my Mom
Got out of Prison
And I went to pick her up in the Rain
But before I could get to the station in the pickup
Truck
She got runned over by a damned ol' Train!

So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standin' in the rain
You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'!
You never even call me
Well I wonder why you don't call me
Why don't you ever call me by my name?

VAdame wrote:Well you don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard (anymore.....)
Even though I'm on your fightin' side

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standin' in the rain
You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'!
You never even call me by my name

Well I've heard my name a few times in your phonebook
And I've seen it on signs where I've played
But the only time I know
I'll hear David Allen Coe
Is when Jesus has that final Judgment Day

Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect Country & Western song
Well I wrote him back a letter and told him it was not the perfect
Country & Western song because he hadn't said anything at all about
Mama
or Trains
or Trucks
or Prison
or Gettin' Drunk!
So Steve sat down & wrote another verse to this song & he sent it to me
And I realized my friend had written the perfect Country & Western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here:

I was drunk
The day my Mom
Got out of Prison
And I went to pick her up in the Rain
But before I could get to the station in the pickup
Truck
She got runned over by a damned ol' Train!

So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standin' in the rain
You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'!
You never even call me
Well I wonder why you don't call me
Why don't you ever call me by my name?

LOL......guess I was too drunk in the rain under the truck to remember.

DevilKitty100 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:I was in the middle of taking it when I got a page timeout. When I refreshed it asked me to sign in again. I then got the following message:
That quiz does not appear to be available any longer. Please email support@sploofus.com for further assistance.

Now it says I've taken it already.

I was a huge fan of Steve's and saw and met him several times.

Did you tell him you had written the perfect country song?

And did he tell you that no you hadn't because you hadn't mentioned mama, trains or pickup trucks?

And did you then tell him it was raining the day you went to pick up mama at the train station in the damned old truck the day she got out of prison?

As well as dogs and Christmas ...
I remember him ending it as something like:
Ever since the dog got drunk and Mamma went to prison, nothing around this old house has been the same. When Mamma broke out last Christmas, she drove the damn getaway laundry truck right into a train
IIRC he would also wear this big-old cowbay hat when performing it and I consider myself fortunate to have seen him a number of times - the last time was a double bill with John Prine in NYC - they did two shows that night and I had gotten tickets for both shows - interesting, although Steve did basically the same set for both shows, John Prine's set was almost entirely different between his first and second show with maybe just 2 or 3 numbers being performed in both. The second show ended really late because of all the joint encores the two did together (John was the headliner, Steve the opening act, but the encores were joint performances) - and we ended up missing the last train out of Penn Station and had to wait for the first morning train - but it was worth it.

---Jay (Steve was born in this year of the 20th Century - the same number as the number of days until my episode airs)

And let us not forget the best train song ever written, "City of New Orleans," and "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request."

Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around?
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground?
When I was a boy,
They were my pride and joy,
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League.

frogman042 wrote:As well as dogs and Christmas ...
I remember him ending it as something like:
Ever since the dog got drunk and Mamma went to prison, nothing around this old house has been the same. When Mamma broke out last Christmas, she drove the damn getaway laundry truck right into a train
IIRC he would also wear this big-old cowbay hat when performing it and I consider myself fortunate to have seen him a number of times - the last time was a double bill with John Prine in NYC - they did two shows that night and I had gotten tickets for both shows - interesting, although Steve did basically the same set for both shows, John Prine's set was almost entirely different between his first and second show with maybe just 2 or 3 numbers being performed in both. The second show ended really late because of all the joint encores the two did together (John was the headliner, Steve the opening act, but the encores were joint performances) - and we ended up missing the last train out of Penn Station and had to wait for the first morning train - but it was worth it.

---Jay (Steve was born in this year of the 20th Century - the same number as the number of days until my episode airs)

Sounds like a party I'm really sorry I missed. I truly do only remember seeing Jerry Jeff Walker perform the song and that was at some lodge between Reno and Tahoe many, many winters ago.

And there was more than a little Tanqueray gin involved........thus the, um, hazy memory. As for being under the truck......maybe, maybe not. Just kidding. Not under the truck at all.

I repeat......many, many, MANY winters ago.

nitrah55 wrote:And let us not forget the best train song ever written, "City of New Orleans," and "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request."

Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around?
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground?
When I was a boy,
They were my pride and joy,
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League.

I'm right there with you on City of New Orleans. Great song.

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Sorry, these are not areas I will do well at. What is the percentage if you randomly guess? 25%

Would you like to do a food or science quiz and I will have a go at it
?

one of my favorite composer/singers. I was fortunate to see him many times. I rang in the new year with him, Jim Post, Bonnie Koloc, John Prine with Studs Terkel as emcee at the Earl of Old Town. It truly was a night to remember.

My favorite song of his is the Dutchman:

"The Dutchman's not the kind of man
Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam
That holds his dreams in,
But that's a secret that only Margaret knows.

When Amsterdam is golden in the summer,
Margaret brings him breakfast,
She believes him.
He thinks the tulips bloom beneath the snow.

He's mad as he can be, but Margaret only sees that sometimes,
Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes.

Let us go to the banks of the ocean
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.
Long ago, I used to be a young man
And dear Margaret remembers that for me.

The Dutchman still wears wooden shoes,
His cap and coat are patched with the love
That Margaret sewed there.
Sometimes he thinks he's still in Rotterdam.

And he watches the tug-boats down canals
An' calls out to them when he thinks he knows the Captain.
Till Margaret comes
To take him home again

Through unforgiving streets that trip him, though she holds his arm,
Sometimes he thinks he's alone and he calls her name.

Let us go to the banks of the ocean
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.
Long ago, I used to be a young man
And dear Margaret remembers that for me.

The winters whirl the windmills 'round
She winds his muffler tighter
And they sit in the kitchen.
Some tea with whiskey keeps away the dew.

And he sees her for a moment, calls her name,
She makes the bed up singing some old love song,
A song Margaret learned
When it was very new.

He hums a line or two, they sing together in the dark.
The Dutchman falls asleep and Margaret blows the candle out.

Let us go to the banks of the ocean
Where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee.
Long ago, I used to be a young man
And dear Margaret remembers that for me."

lilyvonschtupp26 wrote:one of my favorite composer/singers. I was fortunate to see him many times. I rang in the new year with him, Jim Post, Bonnie Koloc, John Prine with Studs Terkel as emcee at the Earl of Old Town. It truly was a night to remember.

My favorite song of his is the Dutchman:

"The Dutchman's not the kind of man
Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam
That holds his dreams in,
But that's a secret that only Margaret knows.

... remainder of this great song snipped for brevity reasons only
"

Yes, an all time favorite of mine that Steve performed so well - except Steve didn't write it, Mike Smith did. Still it's one of the songs I always think of when I think of Steve Goodman. Mike Smith also wrote a song that is so unlike The Dutchman the Steve called it a real stump the band song. So here is the first stanza with the last word omitted. Your assignment is to figure out both the missing word and the title of the song.

I could learn to understand Swahili by myself
I could even teach it to my good dog Ralph
I could learn to read you every book upon the shelf
I could learn to tell your fortune like the Oracle of Delphi
I could learn to tell you every flower by it's color
I could learn to swim as fast as Johnny Weismuller
But I couldn't ever learn to get along without you
Don't you run away from me I sure dig _______

---Jay (If you know the year that Elvis and his family moved to Memphis you will know how many more days to my episode is supposed to air - why Elvis - because Mike Smith wrote (I'm not sure if Steve Goodman gets co-writting credit I know he used to do a great performance of it, at least) a song called Elvis Imitators - I believe Jimmy Buffett recorded it under the name of Freddie and the Fishsticks)

City of New Orleans is one of my all-time favorite songs.

frogman042 wrote:

lilyvonschtupp26 wrote:one of my favorite composer/singers. I was fortunate to see him many times. I rang in the new year with him, Jim Post, Bonnie Koloc, John Prine with Studs Terkel as emcee at the Earl of Old Town. It truly was a night to remember.

My favorite song of his is the Dutchman:

"The Dutchman's not the kind of man
Who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam
That holds his dreams in,
But that's a secret that only Margaret knows.

... remainder of this great song snipped for brevity reasons only
"

Yes, an all time favorite of mine that Steve performed so well - except Steve didn't write it, Mike Smith did. Still it's one of the songs I always think of when I think of Steve Goodman. Mike Smith also wrote a song that is so unlike The Dutchman the Steve called it a real stump the band song. So here is the first stanza with the last word omitted. Your assignment is to figure out both the missing word and the title of the song.

I could learn to understand Swahili by myself
I could even teach it to my good dog Ralph
I could learn to read you every book upon the shelf
I could learn to tell your fortune like the Oracle of Delphi
I could learn to tell you every flower by it's color
I could learn to swim as fast as Johnny Weismuller
But I couldn't ever learn to get along without you
Don't you run away from me I sure dig _______

---Jay (If you know the year that Elvis and his family moved to Memphis you will know how many more days to my episode is supposed to air - why Elvis - because Mike Smith wrote (I'm not sure if Steve Goodman gets co-writting credit I know he used to do a great performance of it, at least) a song called Elvis Imitators - I believe Jimmy Buffett recorded it under the name of Freddie and the Fishsticks)

Spoiler

sex!