What's The Name Of That Song?

2009-01-07 - 11:28 a.m.

Fun stuff going on at work. Much of it I can't talk about. Suffice to say, I'm putting some recent training to good use.

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Brin tagged me for this meme last night. Here's the deal:

Take your iPod or music program or whatever. Do a random shuffle. Pick the first twenty songs, excluding instrumentals, and write down their first lines. Post them, and let people guess the songs in the comments section.

So I did. Some are easy, some are hard. The one marked with the asterisk has the title in the first line, so I put down the first line of the first verse. This will give you an idea of what I like:

- I used to be such a sweet sweet thing till they got ahold of me
- I had myself a tall one waiting at the bar
- Here come the jesters - one, two, three
- When I saw her on the corner, then I knew I was a goner
- When the night has come and the land is dark
- Darling, I don't know much but I know I love you so much
- Hello my love, I heard a kiss from you
- I met a devil woman, she took my heart away
- I got a pocketful of quarters and I'm headed to the arcade
- * I keep looking for something I can't get, broken hearts lie all around me
- I'm just mad about Saffron, she's just mad about me
- If I could reach the stars, pull one down to you
- She holds the window down and she talks over the sound
- All last summer in case you don't recall
- I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
- How, how can it be that a love carved out of caring, fashioned by fate
- You wander around on your own little cloud
- I hear tell it's far away but no one goes there now
- Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina
- As I lie awake, resting from the day

Good luck, and remember - no search engines allowed.

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John Stossel talks here how, when it comes to Ponzi schemes, Bernard Madoff is an amateur.

And Walter Williams, always brilliant, talks here about how powerful the rich actually aren't.

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At the Change.gov website, Barack Obama promises that there will be no earmarks included in his new stimulus package.

Let's see if Congress lets him keep that promise.

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In Ontario, the largest university workers' union is suggesting a ban on Israeli professors, "unless they explicitly condemn the [Islamic] university bombing and the assault on Gaza in general".

Turn this around. What if a JEWISH union proposed a ban on MUSLIM teachers, for the same reason?

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Mike Scioscia has received a contract extension that will keep him with the Angels until 2014.

No word yet if Scott Boras wants his "cut".

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I like this judge. We need more like him.

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Okay, that's enough. Good luck with the lyrics.

Be seeing you.

Mel - 2009-01-08 00:28:47 - http://mel-is-dvash.diaryland.com
I got Mellow Yellow, by Donovan, but I just can't place any of the others. *sigh*

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Bob - 2009-01-08 01:56:40 - http://shadowgm.diaryland.com
I got "Stand By Me" and "I Hope You Dance" (at least, I *think* that's the title). -- As for the earmarks, it would seem that's not going to be possible unless Obama's going to wield a big veto pen or get Congress to give him line-item power (and we know what the odds of THAT happening are).

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Brin aka Bindyree - 2009-01-08 16:50:50 - http://bindyree.diaryland.com
Okay here goes. 3. Rock And Roll Fantasy -- 5.Stand By Me -- 7. Strawberry Letter Twenty Three -- 9. Pac Man Fever. Those are the only ones I know, other than some that others have guessed. I hope you post the answers! :-)

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