Month: April 2007

Your English Skills:

Grammar: 100%
Vocabulary: 80%
Punctuation: 60%
Spelling: 40%

Of course, the results don’t tell you which questions you supposedly got wrong. The open and closed punctuation in question #14, for instance, is largely a question of personal style, and the standard usage varies in different parts of the world. (You’ll find the comma outside the quotation marks more often in the UK than you will here in the United States.)

But, really, what’s the point of any quiz if you never learn where you went wrong?

Sometimes it seems like this is all I post here anymore:

  1. So what’s the complication, it’s only conversation
  2. Well he shot him with a mighty big number
  3. I know a girl who thinks of ghosts
  4. I bet her mama never told her why
  5. I am not brave enough to offer
  6. But you’re mountains and rivers away from me now
  7. She doesn’t care whether or not he’s an island
  8. Sentiments as pure as your intentions ought to be
  9. My smack touches every enemy within my clutches
  10. And the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn

Guess the lyric, win the respect and admiration of your peers. (Or not.) As always, good luck. Last week’s answers posted when I get a chance. Still plenty left to guess. Just scroll down…not very far, actually.

So here’s my March 2007 mix:

  1. “Something for You” by Sarabeth Tucek
  2. “Love It When You Call” by the Feeling
  3. “Trouble” by Pink
  4. “Girl All the Bad Guys Want” by Bowling for Soup
  5. “Folsom Prison Blues (live)” by Johnny Cash
  6. “Collarbone” by Fujiya & Miyagi
  7. “Someone to Love” by Fountains of Wayne
  8. “Baby I Love You” by the Yayhoos
  9. “Archie & Veronica” by Lovage
  10. “Spoon” by Chloe Day
  11. “Feathers in a Bag” by Hera
  12. “Fast Train” by Solomon Burke

The way this works, again, is that I’m making a mix every month of twelve songs. (Here’s January’s mix, and here’s February’s.) And, if people want, they can trade me for a mix of their own. It’s really that simple. Let me know if you’re interested.