SPOILERS ADDED. Darn. I was really hoping someone would get the unanswered ones [sigh]. Answers added.
Well, Stats was as much fun as shooting fish in a barrel of monkeys, even if only the lovely Lisa and the lovely Joel participated. What's also fun is I had a short day at work, only about 11 and a half hours, so life is good, beer is good, surprisingly, fish sticks are even good (more or less, with enough cocktail sauce - Mrs. Paul is a semi-hemi-demi-goddess). But the wife's out for the evening, my brain is still feckin' fried, it's illegal (gawd knows why) to beat sales people like a rented mule, and I can't do anything else but plumb the depths of this audience's knowledge.
And yes, I do plan to host a Roger Miller Edition soon. I'll give the trophy to Emily before posting, of course.
Once again, two gimmes and a toughie fuck it. We'll just see what kind of random stuff flies out of my keyboard before I fall over. I only hope I remember the correct answers in the cold, sober light of day. UPDATE: Well, fortunately, in the cold, sober light of day I do happen to remember all the correct answers. I have, however, reworded question 10.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Some answers added and the questions left are bolded.
1) It's Sunday morning and the sun is shining in my eye that is open. What did I have last night? [Joel: Too much tequila - Jose Cuervo, to be specific]
2) Ain't no glamour in this tinsel land and painful scars are all that's left of me. What is it now? [Emily: Guitars, cadillacs, and hillbilly music]
3) Baby left me without warning. What is it, and to where am I flying and why? [Spoiler: It's a bloody mary morning; I'm flying down to Houston and forgetting her is the nature of my flight]
4) A bad mistake I'm makin' by just hangin' 'round. Oh - what? [Joel: Oh, Lonesome Me]
5) [Scratch it, I'll save it for the Johnny Horton Edition]
5 v.2.0) This rattler's the fastest in the southern land to keep doing what? [Spoiler: to keep movin' me on]
6) You ain't so big, you're just tall. Who are you? [Joel: Big Boss Man]
7) He stood six foot six and weighed 245. Who was he? And what happened to him? [Julie gets Big Bad John, but what happened to him? - Angie gets that part, killed in a cave-in after saving 20 men]
8) Out where the bright lights are glowing, you're drawn like a moth to a flame and you laugh while the wine's over-flowing. What hear me and see me? And what else are they doing? [Lisa: Four walls to hear me, four walls to see, four walls too near me, closing in on me]
9) I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down low, and what can you tell your friend? [Angie: He'll have to go]
10) [And speaking of that same singer] Who's walking on quicksand? Who should walk slow because he's (metaphorically) walking on quicksand? (Major freakin' kudos to anyone who gets this obscure one) [Lisa and Emily: Billy Bayou. I really thought this was the toughest of the bunch]
11) I'm watching flies and children on the street and catching glimpses of black-eyed girls. Where am I? [Look, I don't care who sang it, it's a frickin' cowboy ballad, 'k?] [KG, known for not being a C/W fan, gets it with Mexicali]
[desperately tries to make it to an even baker's dozen before doing a nosedive into the keyboard]
12) What am I driving from Lynchburg to Danville? And what describes the route from Lynchburg to Danville? [Angie: Old 97; it's a line with a three mile grade, and also a mighty rough road]
[Almost there, only one more to go ...]
13) Who won the English Football Cup in 1949? [Spoiler: Well I'm not surprised you didn't get that. It was Wolverhampton Wanderers, who beat Leicester 3-1. And I am really surprised no one picked up on the reference.]
Goodnight.
Posted by Ken S at June 21, 2007 08:52 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Country/Western TriviaDamn, I thought I knew C&W, but I only know half of one question...
7 is Big Bad John. But I can't remember what happened to him.
Don't you know any Eddie Rabbit songs? :-(
Posted by: Julie at June 21, 2007 09:09 PMWhy yes I think I do know some Eddie Rabbit songs. I think. Didn't he sing something like "Let's Get Rainy With It" or something like that? ;)
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 21, 2007 09:13 PM9) I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down low, and what can you tell your friend?
He'll have to go.
12) What am I driving from Lynchburg to Danville?
It's not 38, but old 97.
And what describes the route from Lynchburg to Danville?
It's a line with a three mile grade.
Big Bad John, by the way, was killed in a mine cave-in after he'd saved 20 men from the same fate.
Posted by: Angie Schultz at June 22, 2007 07:56 AMIt's not 38, but old 97.
After I answered I googled this up, to make sure of the actual lyrics, and the ones I found say: It's 8:38, and old 97. I always assumed that they'd substituted another, older locomotive (97) for the one Steve had expected to take (38). Of course, I've usually heard this song on lo-fi car stereos of 1960s vintage.
Posted by: Angie Schultz at June 22, 2007 08:00 AMGreat on the answers, Angie. I was specifically thinking of the line "it's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville" but yours is correct too.
As for "8:38", the version I have on CD (I don't remember right off who it is) enunciates very well the line "this is not 38, but old 97" but I'm sure there are different versions.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 08:06 AM# 2 - It's gee-tars and Cadillacs. Hillbilly music. Along the lonely streets that I call home.
Posted by: Emily at June 22, 2007 08:13 AM1) Too much tequila.
4) Oh, lonesome me?
6) You're the Big Boss Man.
7) He wound up at the bottom of a mine.
9) He'll have to go. (Jim Reeves, as I recall.)
Posted by: Joel, President of Catholics for Xenu at June 22, 2007 08:26 AMYes on all of them, E&J.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 08:27 AMI know I wasn't invited, but here's a few freelance ones.
1. What rig did Big Joe drive, and what happened to it?
2. To whom should God give my share of heaven, and why?
3. What does "ooga-ooga-mooshka" mean, and on what river?
Posted by: Joel, President of Catholics for Xenu at June 22, 2007 08:58 AMOf COURSE you're invited, dammit!
1. Phantom 309
2. Not a clue
3. It means "I love you" to squaws along the Yukon. It's probably been 40 years since I've heard it, but I remembered the line as "looshka" instead of "mooshka".
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 09:03 AM10. Billy Bayou
Posted by: Lisa at June 22, 2007 09:13 AM8. Four Walls, and they're closing in on you.
# 10 - "One day in 1878, a pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate. He didn't know whether to stand there or run. He wound up married 'cause he did neither one."
That's one of my favorite lyrics of all time.
Posted by: Emily at June 22, 2007 09:18 AMI've got a stumper:
You broke the seal off a decanter: What did the decanter look like? What did it contain? And what did it you pour it into?
Posted by: Lisa at June 22, 2007 09:46 AMI don't know, Lisa, but I AM REALLY FRICKIN' IMPRESSED THAT TWO PEOPLE GOT THE BILLY BAYOU QUESTION!
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 10:18 AMWhy can't you go home if you're going by the mill?
When you give my love to Rose, what should you say to my boy(s)?
What is the wind doing out in the Gulf?
Posted by: Joel, President of Catholics for Xenu at June 22, 2007 10:18 AMTell the boys that daddy's proud of them.
Posted by: Emily at June 22, 2007 10:25 AMKen - Roger Miller did a cover version of "Billy Bayou." That's the only reason I knew it.
Posted by: Emily at June 22, 2007 10:26 AMI've never heard his version, only Jim Reeves. I'll have to track that one down.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 10:29 AMI wouldn't have gotten Billy Bayou. I may need to turn in my grungy boots.
Posted by: Joel, President of Catholics for Xenu at June 22, 2007 10:42 AMOh, and mine's country. A country mega-star's song, actually.
Posted by: Lisa at June 22, 2007 10:45 AMKen,
Get it. It's awesome. And if you haven't heard his version of "The Day I Jumped From Uncle Harvey's Plane," get that one, too.
Lisa, I resorted to Google, and I'd never heard it. I'll seek out a copy tonight, though, as it's something I ought to be familiar with.
Emily, you got that fast. One of the tear-jerkin'-est songs I've ever heard.
Posted by: Joel, President of Catholics for Xenu at June 22, 2007 10:53 AMIt really is a lovely song, Joel.
Posted by: Emily at June 22, 2007 11:01 AMLisa, I had to resort to google too. I actually have heard it, or part of it, a long time ago.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 11:05 AMWell, dadgum. You're not going to say the name? It's The King is Gone (and so are you) by George Jones. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's not a classic.
Posted by: Lisa at June 22, 2007 11:10 AMOh, definitely not going to give an answer I had to google. Someone else might know it without cheating.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 12:27 PMOh shit. I stopped by a Borders on the way home. They had only one Roger Miller CD, basically a greatest hits album. All the stuff on it I already have on vinyl, and for Father's Day I got one of these, so I declined to buy it.
But the "oh shit" is primarily for the fact that I just started searching amazon for RM and found a boxed set of three CDs. I thought, "Oh cool", then checked to see that it has neither "Billy Bayou" nor "Uncle Harvey's Plane". This bothers me greatly. I shall struggle on because I NEED TO HEAR THOSE SONGS!
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 07:26 PMAnd I am really surprised no one picked up on the reference.
Well, I knew the reference, but not the answer, and I was too lazy to google it up. I did consider dropping a "Sing, Little Birdie" in somewhere, but forgot. (That's from the TV version.)
Did you know we'd been to see Spamalot?
Posted by: Angie Schultz at June 22, 2007 09:09 PMOh, Angie, Daughter Number Two would be SO JEALOUS! She knows everything about it and so desperately wants to see it in person.
Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at June 22, 2007 09:40 PM