top o' the mornin'® 8/6/2014

[earendel]

The bitter taste of defeat is still in my mouth. elwing and I went to Tuesday trivia and got our keisters royally kicked. The fact that one of the two bonus rounds gave 3 points each for naming members (current or past) of the Rolling Stones (we could only think of 2 at the time) and two other questions were pop culture related ("who famously said, after her divorce, 'at least I can wear my high heels again' and "what starlet got her big break after being named Miss Artichoke") and I had total brain cramps on two others ("By what name is October 29, 1929, known?" and "What famous musical composition was written to celebrate the victory at the battle of Borodino?") - I knew both of them but wrote down the wrong answers. Oh, well, a little humility is a good thing.

[christie1111]

The bitter taste of defeat is still in my mouth. elwing and I went to Tuesday trivia and got our keisters royally kicked. The fact that one of the two bonus rounds gave 3 points each for naming members (current or past) of the Rolling Stones (we could only think of 2 at the time) and two other questions were pop culture related ("who famously said, after her divorce, 'at least I can wear my high heels again' and "what starlet got her big break after being named Miss Artichoke") and I had total brain cramps on two others ("By what name is October 29, 1929, known?" and "What famous musical composition was written to celebrate the victory at the battle of Borodino?") - I knew both of them but wrote down the wrong answers. Oh, well, a little humility is a good thing.

At the risk of sounding like some others who chime in 'I knew those', I will say I would have gotten a few. Not sure I would have gotten more Rolling Stones names but I knew

Spoiler

anyone married to Tom Cruise, i.e. Nicole Kidman and Marilyn Monroe, and I thought that was the date of Black Friday.

Nope on the song though.

[Bob Juch]

I would have gotten only three Stones, neither of the women, but both of the history questions.

[ghostjmf]

Spoiler

Even those of us who held toward Mr. Cruise no animosity (well, until later we learned about his Scientology crap ruling his next relationship) said a sort of "heh heh" at Ms. Kidman's remark. Those of us who are women anyway. Even those of us who are shorter than Mr. Cruise & never wear high heels.


I thought I knew a lot about MM, but I did not know the Miss Artichoke deal until now.


And I knew Black Friday.


Could name at least 1 ex-Stone.

[Beebs52]

I thought the high heels remak was

Spoiler

Rory Mcilroy's girlfriend, whose name is Caroline Wosnickie or somehing

[Beebs52]

Realized

Spoiler

divorce was the key not broken engagement

[Bob Juch]

I thought the high heels remak was

Spoiler

Rory Mcilroy's girlfriend, whose name is Caroline Wosnickie or somehing

Who?

[Beebs52]

Had a couple of typos plus not knowing her name plus being wrong. Oh well. She did say that tho...

[littlebeast13]

I had just mentioned the names of all four current Stones in my Sunday blog post..... tsk, tsk!

lb13

[Estonut]

I had just mentioned the names of all four current Stones in my Sunday blog post..... tsk, tsk!

Upon reading this comment, I went over and looked at your recent blog posts. There were a couple other coincidences:

1) You raved about 'Dangerous' by Big Data and Joywave. They played this on Seth Meyers' show last Wednesday (Thursday AM). After a break, Joywave came back and performed 'Tongues.' The photo (with the arch) at the top of your blog entry came from that show.

2) About Magic Dick, you said, "He was like that guy in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones that does nothing but dance… only Magic Dick was even more useless than that."

Dicky Barrett is the lead singer of TMMB. He is also the announcer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The band showed up last night (Wednesday) to play "They Will Need Music." After a break, they came back and played "The Impression That I Get," with Jimmy Kimmel on saxophone. IIRC, Ben "Bosstone" Carr danced through both songs. What else is he gonna do?

[earendel]

I would have gotten only three Stones, neither of the women, but both of the history questions.

I went 50/50 and picked wrong on both of the history questions - said "Black Friday" instead of "Black Tuesday" and "Eroica" instead of "1812 Overture").

[littlebeast13]

I had just mentioned the names of all four current Stones in my Sunday blog post..... tsk, tsk!

Upon reading this comment, I went over and looked at your recent blog posts. There were a couple other coincidences:

1) You raved about 'Dangerous' by Big Data and Joywave. They played this on Seth Meyers' show last Wednesday (Thursday AM). After a break, Joywave came back and performed 'Tongues.' The photo (with the arch) at the top of your blog entry came from that show.

2) About Magic Dick, you said, "He was like that guy in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones that does nothing but dance… only Magic Dick was even more useless than that."

Dicky Barrett is the lead singer of TMMB. He is also the announcer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The band showed up last night (Wednesday) to play "They Will Need Music." After a break, they came back and played "The Impression That I Get," with Jimmy Kimmel on saxophone. IIRC, Ben "Bosstone" Carr danced through both songs. What else is he gonna do?

I think the image I used to lead off my Monday post was from that appearance on the Seth Meyers Show, and Google mentioned it was only a few days old. That's the cool thing about the Mecca CD.. it keeps me relevant whether I want to be or not!

lb13

[Estonut]

I had just mentioned the names of all four current Stones in my Sunday blog post..... tsk, tsk!

Upon reading this comment, I went over and looked at your recent blog posts. There were a couple other coincidences:

1) You raved about 'Dangerous' by Big Data and Joywave. They played this on Seth Meyers' show last Wednesday (Thursday AM). After a break, Joywave came back and performed 'Tongues.' The photo (with the arch) at the top of your blog entry came from that show.

2) About Magic Dick, you said, "He was like that guy in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones that does nothing but dance… only Magic Dick was even more useless than that."

Dicky Barrett is the lead singer of TMMB. He is also the announcer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The band showed up last night (Wednesday) to play "They Will Need Music." After a break, they came back and played "The Impression That I Get," with Jimmy Kimmel on saxophone. IIRC, Ben "Bosstone" Carr danced through both songs. What else is he gonna do?

I think the image I used to lead off my Monday post was from that appearance on the Seth Meyers Show, and Google mentioned it was only a few days old. That's the cool thing about the Mecca CD.. it keeps me relevant whether I want to be or not!

There's an echo in here!

[littlebeast13]

Upon reading this comment, I went over and looked at your recent blog posts. There were a couple other coincidences:

1) You raved about 'Dangerous' by Big Data and Joywave. They played this on Seth Meyers' show last Wednesday (Thursday AM). After a break, Joywave came back and performed 'Tongues.' The photo (with the arch) at the top of your blog entry came from that show.

2) About Magic Dick, you said, "He was like that guy in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones that does nothing but dance… only Magic Dick was even more useless than that."

Dicky Barrett is the lead singer of TMMB. He is also the announcer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The band showed up last night (Wednesday) to play "They Will Need Music." After a break, they came back and played "The Impression That I Get," with Jimmy Kimmel on saxophone. IIRC, Ben "Bosstone" Carr danced through both songs. What else is he gonna do?

I think the image I used to lead off my Monday post was from that appearance on the Seth Meyers Show, and Google mentioned it was only a few days old. That's the cool thing about the Mecca CD.. it keeps me relevant whether I want to be or not!

There's an echo in here!

How about that! You mentioned it too....

lb13