Month: November 2005

The Friday Random 10, “Better Luck this Time” Edition:

  1. “Coming up in a beat up car, spitting up a lift of candy bar, talking on about how sharp they are”
    “Three Cool Cats” by The Beatles, guessed by Eric
  2. “When all the limbs are numb and clean, and you’re in transit, dream to dream”
  3. “It’s nothing, they turned off my heat and I’m just a little weak on my feet”
  4. “She’d wait by the window, so patiently, and I’d come on home with my hair hanging down”
    “Debbie Denise” by Blue Öyster Cult, guessed by Eric
  5. “You’re a song written by the hands of God”
    “Underneath Your Clothes” by Shakira, guessed by Eric
  6. “Senorita, looks like you ain’t done nothing good women ain’t supposed to do”
  7. “We got chicken in the barn (Whose barn, what barn, my barn)”
    “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” by Jerry Lee Lewis, guessed by John
  8. “And everybody’s in movies, it doesn’t matter who you are”
    “Celluloid Heroes” by the Kinks, guessed by Generik
  9. “But in the meantime I’ve got it hard, second floor living without a yard”
    “Mushaboom” by Feist, guessed by John
  10. “The sun struggles up another beautiful day”
    “The Other Side of Summer” by Elvis Costello, guessed by Eric

Despite the disappointing results of last week’s list, this is easy and fun (for me anyway) filler. See if you can guess the lyrics. Think of the bragging rights!

From the Associated Press:

Brand name novelist Danielle Steel has reached agreement with New Line Home Entertainment for film rights to at least 30 of her books…

I’ve never read any Danielle Steel myself*, so maybe this is a little unfair, but if you’ve read one or her books, haven’t you pretty much read them all? Isn’t this a little like selling the same thing, thirty times over?

Found via Bookslut.

* I was actually a little surprised to discover that Danielle Steel isn’t a pen name: she was born Danielle Fernande Schuelein-Steel.

It must be the Kryptonite in the water. I honestly can’t think of any other logical explanation for what’s wrong with these people in Kansas:

The new standards say high school students must understand major evolutionary concepts. But they also declare that the basic Darwinian theory that all life had a common origin and that natural chemical processes created the building blocks of life have been challenged in recent years by fossil evidence and molecular biology.

In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

Can’t convince everyone that your faith-based theory is science? Well then, change the definition of science!

I’m amused — you know, in a depressed, I-can’t-believe-these-people kind of way — by how they refer to their opposition as “Darwin fundamentalists.” Ah, those wacky nutjobs, with their scientific method and their rigorous pursuit of quantifiable truths!

Hey, you know what else? Math is hard. On average, our kids don’t do tell well in that subject anyway. Can we change the defition of mathematics, so that it’s no longer limited to the study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols? All we really need to know is how many cubits there were in the Ark and we’re good to go, right?

Link via the AfAP discussion forum, where I admit I posted pretty much this same post.

Once again, there are 8 lyrics that haven’t been guessed in last week’s Friday Random 10. Surely someone must know at least a few of these songs.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Update: In the comments, Eric, who can count better than I can apparently, points out there was only 1 correctly guessed lyric. Now, with the ones he’s guessed, there are 4 — with 6 still remaining!