#84936
11/11/2002 8:33 PM
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In reply to:
What is it with you guys!?
AHEM! To quote Tim Rice, "I do my thinking above the waistline, sunshine."
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#84937
11/12/2002 1:27 AM
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#84938
11/12/2002 1:35 AM
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>Who's Tim Rice?
A renowned lyricist, the man who wrote the words for most of A. Lloyd Webber's "rearrangements of Mendelssohn's greatest hits" qwuote from Rowan Atkinson
Rice also wrote the words for the musical "Chess", composed by Benny & Bjorn of ABBA fame, from which musical came my earlier quote.
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#84939
11/12/2002 2:00 AM
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Okay--now, who's Rowan Atkinson? [playing right in e]
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#84940
11/12/2002 2:00 AM
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Yeah, and I think the line was "I have my fun above the waistline, Sunshine." A perennial favorite.  Consider that nit picked.
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#84941
11/12/2002 2:04 AM
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Oh, Jackie. I have a hard time believing you haven't beeeeen introduced to Rowan Atkinson yet! Quick, someone, adder to the list of people who need a dose of culcha!
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#84942
11/12/2002 3:49 AM
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Aksherly, the pphrase was "I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine." Consider that nit re-picked.
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11/12/2002 12:13 PM
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#84944
11/12/2002 7:00 PM
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Tim Rice?
Come on Jackie, you have kids. He also did the lyrics for The Lion King.
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#84945
11/14/2002 11:40 AM
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Now that, my distant friends, is a scary law. I'd bet the lot of your Tower Jewels that this crass affront to free information flow everywhere was enacted while your paternalistic labour boys were in power. Right?
Well I'd rather have a license fee than only have access to commercially run corporate stations which interrupt programmes every ten minutes with endless exhortations to CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME, telling me what to think and how to live and ending every sodding programme with some asinine moral lesson as if I need to learn how to run my life and interact with society from some electronic box in the corner. I'm ever so glad of the license fee if it saves me from outrageously biased news reporting and the 'network line' and the exclusion of gay people ( unless devoid of any sexual urges and simply reduced to the modern equivalent of black minstrels),Asians, and indeed the total exclusion of anything deemed offensive to the fundamentalist Christian lobby whereas depictions of violent murder and torture are encouraged all day every day, even in kids programmes. Okay tirade over, this'll make you laugh, blind people only get a 50% reduction off the tv license.
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#84946
11/14/2002 1:50 PM
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Dody, you have got to see Bowling for Columbine. If it hasn't made it to the UK, watch for it. I just saw it last night, and it speaks to many of your points. I'm with you, sister...
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#84947
11/14/2002 2:02 PM
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Amen, dody. This is why those of us USns who value independent thought love our NPR and our PBS (the television arm).
Bowling for Columbine just hit our small town and I hope to see it this weekend or next.
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11/14/2002 3:25 PM
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The Current Challenge (given November 10, 2002) Name a well-known European city. Remove the first two letters to get the name of another well-known European city. What cities are these? Hint: These are two major cities with populations of over 250,000. Ah Ha! NPR comes up with a tricky one. First impulse is to answer... Venice minus Ve equals Nice, France. But no, we sophisticates know that although pronounced "Nice", the city is spelled "Neece", and therefore doesn't qualify. But I bet my bottom dollar we can come up with another pair. What do ya think?  And Dodyskins, "Okay tirade over, this'll make you laugh, blind people only get a 50% reduction off the tv license." ~ Dody You were right... On the floor.  In the hall. On the wall. All the way to the bank. And back. etc. , ___________
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#84949
11/14/2002 6:18 PM
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Milum, sophisticates aside, I do wish you'd submit your answers as you come up with them. I'd love to hear your sugar molasses tones on the radio battling witz wit Will Shortz.
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#84950
11/17/2002 10:20 PM
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The Current Challenge (given November 17, 2002): Think of a famous actress with a last name in 5 letters. Rearrange these letters to get the last name of another famous actress. Rearrange again, adding a "T" at the end to get the last name of a famous actor in 6 letters. What names are these? _________________________Greta Garbo
_________________________Za Za Gabor
_____________________Humphrey Bogart
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#84951
11/19/2002 7:06 PM
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Dammit! Submit your answer, already! 
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#84952
11/19/2002 7:38 PM
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I agree, Elizabeth. I've been tuning in to the NPR puzzle for a couple of years now, and once in a while I send in an answer. As it happened I had e-mailed this week's response before seeing it posted here. But as a puzzle fanatic I like to figure it out myself and not see it posted by someone else.
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#84953
11/19/2002 10:54 PM
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Well Slithy, if this quiz is fun for you, I'll not answer it anymore. Be cool.
Milo.
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#84954
11/20/2002 12:33 AM
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Well, that's right nice of y'all, Milum...
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