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Yes!...uh,I mean,uh, no. Your answer is better than mine. I pulled the ole "Ayn Rand" trick but I couldn't fit in the "shrugged". This Bud's for you, Beck.
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How's this? Sounds like something she'd say.
Say, "Neither 'they' nor 'we' do we hold dear." And, at last, wish rugged individualism on the world.
This Beck's for you, Bud.
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Sure, that's easy for you to say, you're the champ, you are the first coming and the last going, you are Beck. 
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I definitely disagree with some of that.
You may have heard of the singing chipmunk, Alvin. Central to his story of musical success are the dues he (along with Theodore and Simon) paid travelling the back roads of America from engagement to engagement in a decrepit Volkswagen van many years ago. Ghosts of the three, long-deceased rodents are still occasionally seen on starry nights in roadhouse parking lots throughout the country.
This artist had an ear for music, too.
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vin.Cent van go.Gh: starry nights! (Excellent on the Gogh.)
Asquith was learning how to meditate. He sat in the lotus position, chanting, "Am". "No no no", his instructor cried. "You have to do it with 'Om', as you well know". Old Azzy, being of the Southron* persuasion, said, "Way-al", vacillating momentarily; "whut I tried is only whut I heard".
This person learned lots of ways how not to do something.
*Hi, Anna!
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THOMAS EDISON
The Queen donned her lucky bonnet. Her land's fate would unfold today. Her hat was frumpy; a funky queen-size royal red velvet creation she had bought for a song at a yard sale while visiting Spa in Belgium. She didn't care. Today, no convention, no human, no thing, must stand in the path of total victory. She wore a long evening frock and then for luck she stopped in the street and did a dance called the Castle Rock.
Did I mention that she wore a TIE?
Clue: A prediction
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Netherlands, zero. Spain nothing. A tie. (You were close.)
My contribution will have to wait - maybe for a week or more, so somebody else please cut in for this dance.
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Em...Thomas Alva Edison. Wish I could come up with a new one, but can't at the moment so I won't try yours...yet!
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Eric, a berry farmer, referred to his wisdom concerning dogs as “Fido lore.” Somehow he managed to rear donated pups into adults that were the envy of the county. When Eric ran berries into the farmers’ market, the dogs would sit patiently in his driveway until he returned home.
An Irish rock group and its lead singer (now a solo performer.)
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DOLORES O'REARDON AND THE CRANBERRIES  I'm thinking, I'm thinking....
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Take your time - I'll be off line until next Thursday. I'll see everybody then.
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Good wishes for the duration!
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The third time is a charm, the three pots of gold on a slot machine wheel makes a jackpot, but airplane crashes and train wrecks come in threes too. Gestalt psychologists say our penchant for threes is our attempt to order a chaotic Universe, but maybe we just like things in "threes". I can think of ten or so trios of entertainers I like. Two can be found above, can you find them?
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AUGH--I got one, but canNOT find the other! I found something I was suspicious about, and even cheated by trying Google, but it didn't help. And, I'm glad you got Beck's latest; I wouldn't have: I've never heard of DOLORES O'REARDON AND THE CRANBERRIES.
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Not me, Jackie, I have never heard of Delores Oreardon and the Cranberries either, I simply uncrypted it from Beck's arrangement. Google finds a Delores O'riordan and some Cranberries so maybe Beck just disremembered her name. Maybe he was ashamed and that is why he left town. Now here's a hint to decode my cryptonym: The two groups of threes entertain at opposite ends of the entertainment spectrum. One represents the epitome of musical control and order. The other represents the ultimate in disorder and mayhem of man-so-un-kind. 
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I certainly disremembered it - my badness. And I can't even figure out one of your darned trios, but my mind is elsewhere.
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Ah, Beck, if your mind is elsewhere it has reasons for being there so follow it.
THE THREE TENORS and THE THREE STOOGES
The third time is a charm, the three pots of gold on a slot machine wheel makes a jackpot, but airplane crashes and train wrecks come in threes too. Gestalt psychologists say our penchant for threes is our attempt to order a chaotic Universe, but maybe we just like things in "threes". I can think of ten or so trios of entertainers I like. Two can be found above, can you find them
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Thanks Beck. Please remember it when I write my next inartful one.
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With or without the Swede; Theyer, Dahlgren, and Smith make a good defensive line. If the Swede is put back on defense, it will be good for the team, but I kind of like the idea of the other three having to play without him.
A well-known adventurer and a famous craft that bore him.
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Hold it, hold it...time out! I got the three stooges, and even tenors, but. Is "The Three Tenors" a legitimate trio? I saw tenors, but was looking for Irish or even Italian... Please note: I am just asking. Just because *I don't happen to know of any certain group does not mean they don't exist!
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Jackie, my dear, it is my great pleasure to jar your memory... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khHvMdzsW2cNow, wasn't that a joy and a hoot?
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Beautifully done (or should I say "sneakedly done") Mister Beck. But you stepped into a trap that was set back in 1962. That was the year that I first saw KON TIKI the movie and obviously I then knew the name of the craft that THOR HEYERDHL sailed across the Pacific. He became my hero for life.
Well, not exactly for life. His second voyage across the Atlantic to America was less romantic. Thor bitched and his crew (mostly whiners) bitched and whined their way almost to South America before their reed boat fell apart. But still I liked their spunk (whatever "spunk" means).
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Good enough, then. And yes, it was funny. I didn't realize they had sung together enough to be known as The Three Tenors. I am, um, not a fan of opera.
Thanks!
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Some kids think I’m too freaking old – a seventy-year-old mountain climber! Hah! Call me irresponsible, but I don’t care. It’s what I want to do and I figure “when it’s my time to die, it’s my time to die” and not before.
Onniclue: She achieved great heights, but not by climbing mountains.
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GOLDA MEIR!
A new and trying onnicle may yet offer folks a mystery. Understand: readers don‘t easily register just any message. Everybody sees something that’s expected, wanted - a rendering that lets every eye record encoded messages in crafty knots.
This was a novel, then a movie with a Duke Ellington soundtrack. The title and the male and female lead actors are all in there. [Initially I used “cunning” instead of “crafty,” but I thought that might not be an adjective in good standing with linguists.]
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ANATOMY OF A MURDER - JAMES STEWART - LEE REMICKAnd for interrupting my night of much-needed sleep you should be hung (not hanged) by you own cunning (and crafty) rope.
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Dang, beck, why'd you go odd on the roolz again? Every error I make, trying to sort out what you've done to your material, makes me crazy!
Just a phrase.
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GOOD ONE? (I see that in there, but there may be something else.)
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Psst--it's an Aussie phrase.
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BE GOOD: DON'T TRY TO TAUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE, MATE. Well, I tried, maybe this will taunt Jackie into submission...Mate.
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Psst--it's an phrase.
Good on yer/ya mate!
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"Good one" isn't a phrase? Well, it is, but it clearly isn't the one we're looking for. Hmm.
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"Be good to your alma mater?"
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Got it! Cheated, but that's the point. I searched the Wordsmith Forum for "roolz". BelMarduk 03/06/06 wrote: 'Roolz!? We don't need no steenkin' roolz.'Jackie's "phrase" is just a continuation of a Awad family tradition.
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Good gracious--what I intended as a sneakified compliment turned into an absolute tizzy! olly got it -- I reckon he has a bit of an inside edge!
Dang, beck, why'd you go odd on the roolz again? Every error I make, trying to sort out what you've done to your material, makes me crazy!
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I think Jackie has given us the toughest one in a long time. You go, girl. That was great!
If you really want to bug some old man, tell him you dated a Playboy bunny when you were young: “Oh, yeah. In the motel. Me romping between the sheets with Miss February. She wasn’t much at onnicles – the slightest mental challenge befuddled her – but, hey, I didn’t care.” Believe me, lots of old-timers will get nervous and blanch like parchment when you tell them a story like this.
This character starred in short, popular productions. His nemesis and the behind-the-scenes star of these shows are in there, too.
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Should I dump another hint?
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Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Mel Blanc!
My Uncle Jasper used to fuss at me a lot when we'd go visit. If I started to reach for the last biscuit, he'd say, "You'll draw back a nub!" Then he'd follow it up with, "Here's the vinegar; giggle some more while you're drinking it, hey?" Or: "You've got too big a wad of chewing gum in your mouth--spit half of it out."
Too easy!
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