Month: March 2006

Once again, the Friday Random Guess 10:

  1. Her harlequin hovers nearby
    “Helplessly Hoping” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, guessed by Kim
  2. She only played one night stands
    “Ticket to Ride” by the Beatles, guessed by Kim
  3. We’ve greeted you with wild applause
    “You’ll Have To Swing It (Mr. Paganini)” by Ella Fitzgerald, guessed by Eric
  4. She smiled so I got up and asked for her name
    “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” by the Arrows, guessed by Kim and Eric
  5. Hang up the cat and put the dog out to dry
  6. I just don’t feel much like a scarecrow today
    “Black Crow Blues” by Bob Dylan, guessed by Kim
  7. Your matches still light up the sky
    “Now I’m Here” by Queen, guessed by Kim
  8. Where you going with that UB40 in your hand?
    “Going Down to Liverpool” by the Bangles, guessed by Eric
  9. I gave you all a girl could give you
    “Tainted Love” by Gloria Jones, guessed by Kim and Eric
  10. Put that gadget in the random mode
    “High 5 (Rock the Catskills” by Beck, guessed by Eric

Either people are getting bored with this, or last week’s list was tougher than usual. The six lyrics not guessed were:

  • #2 — “Gravel” by Ani DiFranco
  • #3 — “Rusted Pipe” by Suzanne Vega
  • #7 — “Non Non, Rien N’a Change” by Billy Ze Kick (possibly others)
  • #8 — “Heave-Ho” by Smash Mouth
  • #9 — “Adrian” by Jewel
  • #10 — “I Know You By Heart” by Eva Cassidy (possibly others)

Better luck this week!

Wondering, briefly, what foot-fetishists think of the opening credits of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (in which a giant foot famously crushes the show’s title)*, I came across this amusing interview with Eric Idle and Terry Jones:

LOFFICIER: Come on, you did cheat on “Every Sperm Is Sacred” didn’t you?

JONES: Not on the song. Only on the stuff that Mike was saying about “wearing the little rubber thing on the end of my cock”. When we actually came to do that, with all the kids there, the guardians of the kids were a bit worried about it, so Michael actually said “a little rubber thing on the end of my sock”, and we had to dub it in later.

IDLE: Now there are a lot of young people growing up foot fetishists!

JONES: I think we ought to be sued actually, for misleading children.

* I was sent along this particular line of thought by this (completely work-safe) photo, which came up in my news aggregator under a “Monty Python” keyword search. This is how my brain works. Feet don’t do a whole lot for me, personally, though.

Like always, I’ll be posting a new Friday Random Guess 10 later this evening. In the meantime, though, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that there are still six lyrics left in last week’s list. I’ll post the answers for those ones later as well.

Boing Boing relays the news that Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly:

A Japanese-led research team said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country’s growing number of elderly.

All I can say is, I hope those old people have Old Glory Insurance.

Update: Scrolling down just a little, I realize that Boing Boing already made that particular reference. My bad.

From today’s Writer’s Almanac:

Hawthorne began the novel shortly after he was fired from his position at the Salem Custom House, and spent almost all of his time working on it from June 1949 through February 1850.

Yes, Nathaniel Hawthorne was a time-traveler. Little-known fact: he was actually one of the first incarnations of Doctor Who.

(Yes, yes, I know. It’s a typo. It might even be fixed by the time you see this link. Bah. You’re no fun anymore.)